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EIT sets up info center in Cyprus

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) is about to set up an information center in Cyprus, called the EIT Community RIS Hub and is already in search of a national secretary to lead and coordinate it.

The announcement was made on Wednesday at an info day event in Cyprus, co-organized by the EIT and the Research and Innovation Foundation (RIF).

After the Rotation: Romania has a New Government

With 290 votes "for", 95 "against" and no abstentions, the two chambers of the Romanian Parliament elected the new Romanian government headed by Marcel Ciolacu. Deputies voted first, then senators.

418 people's representatives out of a total of 465 were present in the hall during today's vote of confidence and the debates, marked by scandal and sharp exchange of remarks.

A look at migration trends behind the latest shipwreck off Greece

Wednesday's deadly shipwreck off southern Greece, involving a large boat carrying migrants that capsized after apparently rebuffing offers of help, is just the latest case of smugglers packing vessels full of desperate people willing to risk their lives to reach continental Europe.

Exhibition in Kosovo Showcases Wartime Civilian Invalids’ Pain

On March 28, 1999, Besa Guci was getting her children ready for sleep when a grenade landed in the room and killed her one-year-old daughter Ndriqesa. 

Besa, then pregnant with another baby, was injured by the explosion along with her husband and two other children. Even to this day, she has a piece of glass in her eye.

Eurostat: Nearly 1/3 of Bulgarians are at Risk of Poverty

In 2022, 95.3 million people in the European Union were at risk of poverty or social exclusion, i.e. they lived in households with serious financial difficulties. This is according to data from the Eurostat statistical office. They remain almost unchanged from the previous year, when 95.4 million people lived at risk of poverty.

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