Chemistry

Over 100 scrap metal companies briefly blocked the Bulgarian-Turkish border at Kapitan Andreevo and threatened to remain there if the government ignored their protest, Monday.

Couple from Serbia caught smuggling heroin

SUBOTICA -- Hungarian customs officers on Sunday found six kilograms of heroin in a car belonging to a married couple from Serbia, said reports.

The drugs were hidden in a spare tire and found at the Kelebija border crossing.

Coal mining in Bulgaria's largest energy complex Maritsa Iztok EAD has recorded an increase in the first half of 2014.

More than 12.8 million tonnes of raw material have been produced and realized in Q1 2014, BGNES reports.

The head of the Hellenic League for Human Rights, Constantinos Tsitselikis, has written to the European Commission to ask for Brussels to take action to prevent the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons in the sea off Crete.

A number of citizen groups and labor unions on Crete have decided to try to form a blockade around the NATO base in Souda Bay later this month to protest plans to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons in the sea south of the island.

BELGRADE - The damage that the severe floods caused to the Serbian electric power system has yet to be precisely assessed, as this would be possible after coal mines are completely dried and mud removed, Acting Director General of the public enterprise Electric Power Industry of Serbia (EPS) Aleksandar Obradovic said on Wednesday.

The petrol marketed in Romania currently costs by 5 percent, pre-tax, more than in the summer of 2008, when the oil quotations hit record highs, shows an analysis conducted by AGERPRES.

The EU on Wednesday hit French drugs giant Servier with a huge 331 million euro fine for colluding to delay a cheaper generic version of perindopril, a popular blood pressure treatment.
      

BLIC REPORTS CONFIRMED: HIGER PRICES AND DIFFICULT ENERGY SITUATION 150 Million euro for electricity imports

BELGRADE: For now Serbia has contracted 62 million Euro worth electricity imports. It will be necessary to contract the import of at least 40 million Euro more, Blic sources say. The ordered electricity hasn’t been paid yet.

Guards at the Evzones crossing on Greece's border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on Tuesday arrested a 21-year-old man after he was found carrying nearly 4 kilograms of cocaine hidden in his luggage.