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Kosovo's Defence Ministry will have six million more euros to spend in the 2019 budget than it had last year - after the country's parliament voted to expand the competences of the current lightly armed Kosovo Security Force, KSF, and start its transformation into a regular army.

The budget planned for defence in 2019 is 58.7 million euros; the previous year it was 52.3 million.

The solidarity of the European Union member states must rapidly be transposed into a mechanism with legislative power, this would be the solution to the migration phenomenon, Minister of Interior Carmen Dan stated on Thursday.

Greece's jobless rate dropped to 18.5 percent in November from an upwardly revised 18.7 percent in the previous month, data from the country's statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday.

November's unemployment rate was the lowest reading since July 2011.

AGERPRES special correspondent Daniel Florea reports: Romania has become today a regional model in combating Anti-Semitism and xenophobia and, also, a model in what concerns education and measures meant to keep the memory of the Holocaust, Prime Minister Viorica Dancila stated on Thursday in the opening of the conference "Fight against Anti-Semitism: a joint approach for a better protection of

Venezuelan military officers blocked a bridge on the border with Colombia ahead of an anticipated humanitarian aid shipment from the U.S., as opposition leader Juan Guaido stepped up his challenge to President Nicolas Maduro's authority.

The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Bulgaria has endorsed today a statement expressing the country's support for Juan Guaido as interim president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, said the government press office. 

An Istanbul university is joining eight other schools as a founding member in an alliance formed with the aim of promoting "European Union values" in higher education.

All issues with Greece can be resolved "on an equitable basis and in a peaceful way," Turkey's president said Feb. 5.

Minister-delegate for European Affairs George Ciamba on Tuesday had a meeting with Bulgarian Minister of Transport, Information Technology and Communications Rossen Jeliazkov, on which occasion the two officials discussed the main files on the European agenda, with a focus on the legislative proposals corresponding to the single market.

Greece's economic sentiment index declined to 99.6 points in January from 101.6 points in the previous month amid a climate of uncertainty as the country is set to hold general elections later this year, an Athens-based think tank announced on Monday.