Food and drink

Bulgaria's probably most favourite dish – the Shopska Salad – topped the culinary preferences of the Europeans. 

It garnered 19 529 facebook Likes in the European Parliament's campaign “A Taste of Europe”, which started several weeks before the European Elections. 

In it the citizens of the 28 EU member states could vote for their favourite national dish.

Flood relief accounts receive nearly EUR 6 million

BELGRADE -- Donors have so far paid nearly EUR 6 million to the dinar (RSD), hard currency, and PayPal accounts of the Serbian government set up to help flood victims.

Coca-Cola HBC, the world’s No 2 bottler of Coca-Cola Co drinks, posted a bigger-than-expected quarterly loss, hurt by currency losses mainly in its Ukrainian operations.

Bulgaria will export Rose petal jam to China after signing a contract during the first day of the international Food and Beverage Trade Show SIAL China 2014 in Shanghai.

Ahead of the European Parliament elections, the EP's Facebook page has launched "A Taste of Europe" campaign.

Facebook users can vote for their favorite national dish of the 28 EU member states. Each country has nominated one dish to be represented.

Amendments to the regulation for the direct sale of homemade products would allow Bulgaria's restaurants to legally offer homemade dairy products to their clients. 

Almost 17 kilos of cocaine was found in a shipment of bananas from Colombia that ended up at a fruit and vegetable wholesaler in Rendi, southwestern Athens.

Police confirmed on Thursday that the bananas were first shipped to Italy and then brought to Greece by truck.

The shipment was unloaded at the warehouse on May 2.

Kremlin interference in Ukraine raises food prices in the Balkans

Global instability is starting to affect food prices in regional countries.

Prices for wheat produced in Ukraine are rising, affecting world and regional markets. [AFP]

Alpha and Coca-Cola HBC kept the bourse benchmark above the psychologically significant level of 1,220 points on Friday following an earlier decline that had brought daily losses close to 1 percent.

By Chryssa Liaggou