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European Union's cohesion policy needs to be continued and strengthened under the future EU financial programming, given its essential role in bridging gaps among regions, as well as when establishing solid bonds between communities, Romanian Prime Minister Viorica Dancila told the 8th European Summit of Regions in Bucharest on Thursday.

Bulgarian women are the youngest to give birth to their first child among the women in the European Union. This shows Eurostat data for 2017. The average age at first birth in Bulgaria is 26.1 years, with Romania and Latvia standing just behind our country.

Americans and Europeans often complain about China's economic penetration of Greece. They have reached the conclusion that the port of Piraeus is just the tip of the iceberg in what is a long-term project to control more of the Mediterranean country's infrastructure. Greece, of course, is not the exclusive focus of intense Chinese activity.

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The European Union always came out more united, more coherent after the crises it faced, Minister-delegate for European Affairs George Ciamba stated on Tuesday.

A Turkish student who had recently enrolled as an exchange student at a university in Poland's Wroclaw city was stabbed to death at a shopping mall, his family members said on March 11.

Greece's hopes for the creation of a transitional relocation mechanism that would see refugees and migrants being moved to other European Union countries were dashed on Thursday after a reported lack of response at Thursday's meeting of the EU Justice and Home Affairs Council in Brussels.

In Greece, the political pendulum has often swung from one extreme to the other - at great cost to the country. When the 1967-74 dictatorship fell, it was imperative to purge the country's civil protection and security forces and make them more transparent. Over the years, however, this process went off the rails and the forces came to be run by political and unionist power centers.

Greece's National First Aid Center (EKAV) has reactivated its accident prevention division after 13 years of inactivity, due to the high number of road accidents in Greece.

Nearly 9.4 million people in the EU are in leadership positions, with 6 million of them being men (64 percent of all managers) and 3.4 million women (36 percent), Eurostat said.