Decentralization

After five years of researches, the Chinese Central Bank has come close to introducing its own cryptocurrency, the official state media announced quoted by the Wall Street Journal over the weekend.

Cyprus aims to be among the first countries to regulate aspects of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT), Finance Minister Harris Georgiades said on Wednesday, addressing the Cyprus Blockchain Summit in Nicosia.

Cuba has announced it is considering the use of cryptocurrency in order to bolster its finances.

According to a report from SBS-AAP, the country's Communist government announced on state-run TV that it would potentially use crypto as part of a package aimed to boost incomes for as much as a quarter of Cubans and assist with market reforms.

The huge backlog of applications for residence permits for non-European Union citizens investing at least 250,000 euros in Greek properties has forced the state to decentralize the Decentralized Authorities' competences.

Romania can pioneer the blockchain area, but for this we need legislation to help both local entrepreneurs but also to attract entrepreneurs from other European states, Minister of Communications and Information Society Alexandru Petrescu said on Friday at the Palace Parliament at the "Romania Blockchain Summit", organized 20 - 21 June.

Just 5.3 percent of the total stock of apartments for rent in Attica are currently bound for short-term leasing, numbering below 12,000 across the capital, according to data presented on Thursday by the Sharing Economy Association (SODIA).

The Ministry of the Interior (MoI) has opened a 24-hour hotline for reporting violations related to the election process, said the Ministry of the Interior. The information reported must be relevant to the activities of the ministry during the election process.

Nationals of former Soviet Union republics living in Istanbul commemorated the surrender of Nazis in 1945 singing songs and anthems on May 5.

President of the Romanian delegation to the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) Robert Negoita on Thursday told a press conference held on the sidelines of the 8th European Summit of Regions and Cities that European citizens would live better lives if decentralization and subsidiarity "became reality." "Decentralization and subsidiarity are very important objectives that we promote, but we

Yet another group of organized criminals have been apprehended after illegally acquiring cryptocurrency, reports The Next Web. 

Three individuals in Bulgaria have been arrested and charged after obtaining over million (5 million lev) through illegal schemes. Prosecutors had been gathering evidence against the group since June.