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Bulgaria Posts EU's Biggest Growth in Tourist Overnights for 2016

Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said the country has registered a 18% year-on-year increase in tourist overnight stays for the first six months of 2016.

This is the best result within the EU, Angelkova has told Focus Radio, citing Eurostat data.

There were more than 8 million overnights between January and June, according to the minister.

Juncker sees no need for extra measures to conclude Greek bailout review

Greece should not need extra measures to wrap up an ongoing bailout review with lenders, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker has said admitting however that the European Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) may have to bridge their diverging assessments about the state of the Greek economy.

Bulgaria Leads Quarterly Rise in House Prices in EU in Q4'2105

House prices in the European Union rose by 3.8% year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2015, Eurostat has announced.

Compared with the third quarter of 2015, house prices rose by 0.2% in the EU in the fourth quarter, the statistical office of the European Union said in a statement on Tuesday, citing preliminary data.

Greek fertility rate one of the lowest in EU, says Eurostat

According to Eurostat data, there were just over 5 million new births registered in the EU in 2014, with France recording the highest fertility rate. The data indicated the average age a woman has her first child is 29 years old. Greece had 92,000 new births in 2014, with Greek women bearing their first child at 30 years old.

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