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Romania is doing worse in terms of utilising European funds than Bulgaria, stated Vittoria Alliata di Villafranca who is heading a team at General Directorate Regional Policy of the European Commission and is responsible for Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania and Slovenia.

In the wake of Turkey's questioning of national borders determined by the Treaty of Lausanne and a rise in violations of airspace and territorial waters in the Aegean, Greek diplomats have been briefing high-level officials in Europe on Greece's stance, Kathimerini understands.

More than 15,000 Greeks have registered new companies in Bulgaria's tax offices in the first quarter of 2016, the Global Times, a Chinese business edition, has said.

It quotes data from the Greek Embassy in Sofia and a report published by Greek daily Vima ("Tribune").

On average, a dozen accounts opened in Bulgaria on a daily basis, the Chinese Times says, citing Vima.

Three out of four Greeks aged between 15 and 24 were still living at home in 2014, according to a report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) made public this month.

The annual report, called "Society at a Glance," found that southern European countries hardest hit by the debt crisis had the highest rates of young people remaining with their parents.

According to data released by the Bank of Greece (BoG), revenue from the tourism industry had dropped by 9.85 billion Euros (7.1%) over the past 8-moth period, compared to the same period in 2015, which is a record low from the start of the year in January till the end of the summer season in August.

President Prokopis Pavlopoulos Tuesday said recent comments by his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan are "undermining" the Treaty of Lausanne, which delineated the borders between the two countries, as well as bilateral relations between Greece and Turkey.

According to a report published in Deursch Welle, German holidaymakers stayed away from their traditional designations of Turkey, Egypt and north Africa due to terrorist attacks and political instability in the regions, opting for the safer countries of Greece and Spain, as well as Germany.

Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova has said the country has registered a 18% year-on-year increase in tourist overnight stays for the first six months of 2016.

This is the best result within the EU, Angelkova has told Focus Radio, citing Eurostat data.

There were more than 8 million overnights between January and June, according to the minister.

The European Commission (EC) has announced that it "welcomes the efforts of Greece and Albania to clarify all open issues."

At the same time, the EC stressed it would not declare itself on "whether there is a dispute over a part of the territory of Greece along the border with Albania," the Beta agency has reported.

A deal between the European Union and Turkey to stem the flow of migrants looks increasingly like a Jenga tower, says the man who came up with the plan, while placing most of the blame for its failure on European leaders.