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The government and Public Power Corporation (PPC) are in the next few days set to return to the drawing board as regards the sale of lignite plants, in cooperation with the European Commission, following the completion of the market test on December 22.

A fresh survey has revealed a number of key figures about Turks’ eating habits, the socioeconomic ramifications of these habits and the country’s food production figures.

The first working day of the new year is called by lawyers as Divorce Day, as most applications for marriage dissolution are filed, the daily Express reports.

Retailers appear to have relatively high expectations for the winter sales, which start on Monday, January 8, and will last for more than seven weeks through February 28. The optimism stems from the rather positive picture of the festive period.

A quarter of young people in Turkey are exposed to cyber bullying at least once in their lifetime, according to the head of the country’s Information and Communication Technologies Authority (BTK).

Lucas Papademos, who was seriously injured when a letter bomb exploded in his car in May last year, has told Kathimerini in an interview that he does not regret assuming the post of prime minister at the peak of the country's crisis and decried a "deeply polarized political climate" which, he said, created fertile ground for terrorist attacks.

The European Commission adopted on Friday a legal act requiring a 'track-and-trace' system for tobacco products to tackle smuggling and tax avoidance, EUOBSERVER reported.

87% of Bulgarian children use the Internet and this percentage increases every year.

Conservative leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday expressed his distress during a recent trip to Germany when he and other passengers flying in from Greece were subjected to much greater scrutiny than customarily used for European Union arrivals.

According to her statement issued on Wednesday, this type of programming should be broadcast only after midnight.

Raskovic-Ivic also made a connection between reality TV and peer violence among children, which she said was "a big problem."