Liberal democracies

Romania's Foreign Ministry on Monday said that neighbouring Hungary would support Bucharest's bid to join the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD.

At the beginning of September, Hungary threatened to block Romania's membership over the closure of a Hungarian-language Catholic school in Romania's Transylvania region.

Slovenian Prime Minister Mirko Cerar on Thursday said that he was cancelling his visit to Zagreb after his Croatian counterpart, Andrej Plenkovic, told the UN in an address that Slovenia had "compromised" international arbitration of their dispute over the Piran Gulf.

Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar has decided to cancel his visit to Croatia, planned for next week.

Mtel will have a new name, at the request of its owner, Telekom Austria Group. The company announces that it is changing its brand strategy and will introduce a unified policy for all the markets it is in.

This was announced in an official press release of the Austrian telecom.

Naxos, Paros, Kalymnos, Leros are the four islands of the South Aegean Region that are part of the approved Strategic Plan of the South Aegean Region for the construction of diving parks.

Serbia will join the EU in four years, in 2021 or 2022, and deserves to be a member of that community, say the mayor of Slovenia's capital Ljubljana.

In an interview for Serbia' Biznis magazine, cited by Beta on Wednesday, Zoran Jankovic said that he "does not want to insult anyone - but if EU accessions are looked at historically, in what way is Serbia worse than, say, Bulgaria?"

Grabar Kitarovic said on Tuesday that Hungary's decision to block Croatia's membership of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, was not made to "blackmail" Croatia over an ongoing legal dispute about Hungarian energy company MOL.

Pacific leaders including Malcolm Turnbull have condemned North Korea, describing their behaviour as a threat to their region, News.com.au reported.

Pacific nations including Australia have jointly condemned North Korea's repeated attempts to test nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.

The Independent Authority for Public Revenue expects to receive by the end of this month details concerning the bank accounts and generally the financial commodities held by Greeks in 49 other countries, as part of mutual data exchanges.

Tourists take photographs as French President Emmanuel Macron walks outside Athens Cathedral on Friday. France's president has called for greater European investment in Greece to help offset the cash-strapped country's increasing reliance on non-European countries, notably China. [Elena Becatoros/AP]