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The issue of whether or not students should be allowed to transfer to any university they would prefer to the one they entered via national exams is extremely complicated.

Consumer sentiment in Greece is on the track of improvement but has not yet put the worst past it, a survey by GFK Consumer Climate survey for the second quarter of the year in Europe has shown.

Although the indexes concerning Greece remain in negative territory, the trend has shown a clear improvement since last August.

Japan Credit Rating (JCR) Agency has confirmed Turkey’s current credit status and said the country’s outlook is stable.

Romania's government on Wednesday withdrew operating licenses from four private universities, citing the poor quality of their educational offering. Last year the authorities closed six such institutions.

BELGRADE - Serbia's chief negotiator in the EU accession talks Tanja Miscevic said Wednesday that the screening process has so far been completed for 20 acquis chapters, adding that the screening on information society and the media will start this week in Brussels.

The government has moved to privatize the salt marshes at the natural reserve of the Gediz Delta, one of the most important sites for the breeding of flamingoes, in the latest controversial attempt to privatize an environmentally protected area.

In May 2014, the construction production index, calculated on the base of seasonally adjusted data, was 1.7% above the level of the previous month.

In May 2014 working day adjusted data showed an increase by 6.2% in the construction production, compared to the same month of 2013, according to the preliminary data, provided by Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute.

The Economic Sentiment Index compiled by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) climbed to a six-year high in June, reaching 103.7 points, a level unseen since April 2008.

Officials from the directorate of nature conservation and national parks are holding training sessions for locals in mosques to warn them against the smuggling of rare insects and plants by tourists in the eastern province of Van.

By Sotiris Nikas