International relations

Montenegro’s annual national report on the weapons trade said the country exported arms worth around 6.5 million euros over the last year, a 30-per-cent increase in value in comparison to previous years.

Turkish Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Feridun Sinirlioğlu has conveyed to his Israeli counterpart that diplomatic normalization between the two countries is not possible due to the ongoing Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, a Turkish official has told the Hürriyet Daily News.

The Turkish government claims that the Kürecik radar base is not designed to protect Israel, while the opposition loudly insists it is.

 On tour of Lesvos center, minister tells commissioner gov’t needs more support

SYRIZA MEP Manolis Glezos, 92, is planning to raise the issue of Germany’s Second World War reparations to Greece for Nazi crimes at the European Parliament in September.

Speaking to Deutsche Welle on Monday, the war hero noted that the issue would be raised under the umbrella of the Party of the European Left.

The Ministry of Defense has announced the building of a fence designed to curb the influx of migrants at Bulgaria's border with Turkey has finished.

Over the next days, the Chief Directorate Border Police is take over all sections of the installation, the construction of which had been assigned to the Defense Ministry.

Authorities are planning to resettle two thousands of people who have been granted refugee or humanitarian status until the end of 2014, a Bulgarian daily writes.

Citing the 2014 draft strategy on refugee integration, the newspaper Sega argues the measure is due to be adopted at a cabinet session on Wednesday, July 23.

The fiscal performance in the first half of 2014 does not require an update of the state budget, according to Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski.

Oresharski announced Monday on Facebook that the risks Bulgaria faced by end-2014 were manageable.

Large numbers of Israeli tourists who had made holiday plans in Turkey for this summer have canceled their reservations, as experts expect a drop to the levels that followed the raid on the Mavi Marmara in 2010.

Bulgarians will spend BGN 350 M on holidays in Greece in the period May 15 – September 15, 2014, according to an expert from the Institute of Analyses and Assessments in Tourism.

Rumen Draganov, as cited by econ.bg, suggested that some 660 000 Bulgarians would visit Greece in the 2014 summer season.