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Sofia is ranked 18th among 150 cities in the world with the fastest rise in prices of housing, according to an international report by the consulting company Knight Frank.

Tens of thousands of Hungarians thronged Budapest on April 14 in anger at strongman Prime Minister Viktor Orban's crushing re-election victory.

The high interest in cruise tourism along the Danube River remains. During the new tourist season in Rousse 338 ship visits were declared, last year they were 339, announced the Director of Ruse Supervision Directorate-Ruse to the Maritime Administration Agency Ivan Zhekov.

The ships under the Bulgarian flag "Ariana" and "Elegant Lady" will land a total of 14 times near Russe.

Eight Romanian citizens were injured in a Sunday accident at the Ferenc Liszt International Airport in Budapest, where two passenger minibuses were involved.

BUDAPEST - PM Ana Brnabic and Serbian government ministers have arrived on a working visit to Budapest, where the governments of the two countries will hold their fourth joint session on Friday.

The Serbian delegation, which arrived at the Budapest airport shortly before 7 pm, was welcomed by FM Peter Szijjarto.

BUDAPEST - Serbian PM Ana Brnabic met with Polish counterpart Beata Szydlo at the summit of China and Central and Eastern European states in Budapest on Monday.

Brnabic and Szydlo said political relations between the two countries were good and without open issues and that economic cooperation needed to be improved further.

BUDAPEST - A summit of China and 16 Central and Eastern European states began in Budapest on Monday.

The 6th summit of the 16+1 Initiative is also attended by a Serbian delegation headed by PM Ana Brnabic.

BUDAPEST - Cooperation with Beijing is significant for Europe's development, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban said at the opening of the 6th summit of China and Central and Eastern European states in Budapest on Monday, announcing that a tender for reconstruction of the Budapest-Belgrade rail line would be published later in the day.

Hungary will publish a procurement tender on Monday for a modernized railway link with Serbian capital Belgrade to ship Chinese goods into Western Europe, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Sunday in Budapest.

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Serbia, China and Hungary have agreed to start talks as soon as possible on the modernization of the transport corridor to the Greek port of Piraeus.

This was announced on Wednesday in Budapest by Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic.