France

'Bulgarian Louvre' Project To Open For Visitors in Autumn

The renovation and construction works of three of the four wings of Bulgaria's National Museum Complex, known as the 'Bulgarian Louvre' are complete.

The Sofia-located Complex will be open for visitors in the autumn, and will host exhibits from the collections of Bulgaria's National Art Gallery and the Gallery for Foreign Art, BTV informs.

Sculpture by Miro displayed at Baksı Museum

Joan Miro’s bronze sculpture “Femme aux beaux seins” (The Woman with Beautiful Breasts), is on display at the Baksı Museum, which won the Council of Europe Museum Prize for 2014

The museum was established in 2010 in the village of Baksı by Professor Hüsamettin Koçan and is located 45 kilometers away from the eastern Black Sea city of Bayburt.

The Euroskeptics’ delusions

Brutal and diverse, coarse and noisy, the enemies of the European Union are inside the gates. Chauvinists and angry anti-capitalists, neo-Nazis and drunkards, charlatans and demagogues, they spit hatred, they flatter insecurities, they profit from indignation.

Nikolic to meet Hollande

BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic will talk on Thursday with his French counterpart Francois Hollande in Paris about the difficult situation that his country has found itself in due to catastrophic floods and France's assistance to the flood-hit citizens.

EDF stuns local energy market with plan for strategic PPC entry


By Chryssa Liaggou

French energy giant Electricite de France (EDF) expressed last week its interest in the privatization of Greece’s Public Power Corporation (PPC), just as the government is poised to sell off part of the electricity company under a scheme dubbed “Small PPC.”

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