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Head of State Rumen Radev will be on a working visit to the French Republic from 4 to 6 December at the invitation of President Emmanuel Macron, the presidential press service announced.

The visit is a continuation of the dialogue at the highest level between Bulgaria and France after the meeting of the two presidents in the Palace of Evksinograd in August this year.

Representatives of Greece's lenders are putting pressure on the country's Education Ministry for failing to make progress on a set of reforms agreed under the country's bailout agreements, Kathimerini understands.

Speaking after a meeting with representatives of the institutions in Athens, a senior ministry official told Kathimerini that "a clash is unavoidable."

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has significantly raised its 2017 growth forecast for Turkey to over 6 percent, by citing strong fiscal stimulus and rebound in exports.

About 12,000 of our Bulgarians live and work in Portugal. This was announced today by the chairman of the Bulgaria-Portugal Parliamentary Friendship Group Boris Yachev during a meeting of the group with the Portuguese Ambassador Luis Ferras quoted by the NFSB press center.

Greece ranked first out of 35 OECD countries in tax hikes last year, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the budget for 2018 will lead to an even greater tax burden that will stifle growth, the Parliament's Budget Office (PBO) warned on Thsurday.

Greeks continue to overly rely on expensive diagnostic tests and hospital treatment, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development says in its Health at a Glance 2017 report.

The Greek economy will increase its export activity if it can improve the specialization of its human capital in technologically advanced sectors through the cultivation of skills in the workforce and the population in general, the weekly economic bulletin of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) argues.

Romania's Foreign Ministry on Monday said that neighbouring Hungary would support Bucharest's bid to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD.

At the beginning of September, Hungary threatened to block Romania's membership over the closure of a Hungarian-language Catholic school in Romania's Transylvania region.

Greek schools do not cultivate students' creativity and critical abilities, while the majority of teachers use teaching methods that are not adapted to their students' needs and the requirements of the modern age, a study has found.

Greece is defying the prevalent trend among the world's industrialized nations for reducing tax rates in order to boost investment and competitiveness, a report published on Wednesday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) has shown.