Geography of Europe

25 members of the staff of the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing point have been dismissed.

Six customs officers, who were at work on Monday, received letters of dismissal in person, while the others are to be given their letters on Tuesday, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio.

Everyone, from Greek Cypriot counterpart Nikos Anastasiades and party leaders to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu, Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavu?o?lu, and the diplomatic community stationed in Cyprus, including British and American ambassadors as well as executives of the United Nations Cyprus team, celebrated president-elect Mustafa Ak?nc?

By Stathis Kousounis

The number of international tourists visiting Athens will continue to grow in 2015 provided that stability and a sense of security in Greece can be maintained, Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis told a press conference marking the opening of the third annual Travel Trade Athens on Monday.

BELGRADE- Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic met with Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB) Vice-Governor Mikolaj Dowgielewicz in Belgrade Monday to discuss cooperation, focusing in particular on the implementation of a program for housing of refugees in a region funded by the bank.

BELGRADE- The Forum Creative Europe 2015, which was opened by Serbian Minister of Culture Ivan Tasovac at the Kolarac Endowment on Monday, is aimed at informing cultural workers about the possibilities and procedures of applying for the funds allocated from the EU chief cultural program -Creative Europe.

BELGRADE- Around 10,000 people from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries entered Serbia over the first four months of 2015, and the number is expected to exceed 30,000 by year-end, officials of the Belgrade Center for Human Rights told a press conference on Monday.

BELGRADE - Official of the opposition Social Democratic Party (SDS) Marko Djurisic said that the SDS had discussed results of the Serbian government after one year of its work at meetings with citizens it had organized in Belgrade and over 60 other towns and cities in Serbia Monday, pointing out that their biggest objection to the government's work was incompetence.

The trips of Bulgarian residents abroad rose by 1.6% on the year in March, reaching 318,300, the country's statiscics office NSI announced on Monday.

Spain led the list of countries that registered the largest increase in the number of visitors from Bulgaria (+16.9%), followed by Romania (+15%), the Czech Republic (+12.6%), Greece (+7.7%), Serbia (+6.9%) and Germany (+5.3%).

The number of migrants recently captured in Turkey's southern province of Mersin by the Turkish Coast Guard has increased to 416, after a raid on a ship heading toward Italy. 

Romania and Bulgaria will cooperate to draw up and implement feasibility studies for two new bridges the two countries intend to build together across the Danube, linking Turnu Magurele (Romania) to Nicopole (Bulgaria), and Calarasi (Romania) to Silistra (Bulgaria) respectively, the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration (MDRAP) informed in a release on Monday sent to AGERPR