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Welcoming a ruling by the top European court of human rights, which said Switzerland had violated a Turkish politician?s right to freedom of speech by convicting him for denying the killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 amounted to genocide, Turkey has called the ruling ?an important turning point, as it provides a reply to the exploitation of history and law for political motives.?

An EU directive seeks to protect the environment from the adverse effects caused by the discharge of urban waste water (domestic water and industrial waste water).

Russian potash tycoon Dmitry Rybolovlev won a Swiss court ruling on Thursday with a judgment that slashes a previous divorce award granted to his ex-wife from US$4.5 billion to just more than US$600 million.

The BULSTAT Register will be made fully electronic as of January 1, 2016, according to amendments to the BULSTAT Act adopted by the Bulgarian government on Wednesday.

The trade register will include an electronic file of each legal person subject to registration.

ECHR rulings in 2014 to cost Serbia EUR 2.7mn

STRASBOURG -- The CoE Committee of Ministers has published a report on the supervision of the execution of judgments of the European Court of Human Rights for 2014.

The document states that Serbia will have to pay around EUR 2.7 million in damages.

In 2013, the sum was around EUR 1.65 million.