Member states of NATO

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev is visiting Croatia to meet with counterpart Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic.

Opportunities to build a regional energy market and to boost diversification in Southeast Europe will be among the main topics of discussion, the President's press office has said.

During a press conference with Russia?s President Vladimir Putin on April 8, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras expressed his country?s will to play a big role in the Turkish Stream pipeline project aiming to boost investments in the cash-strapped economy, as reported by EurActiv Greece. 

NATO member Poland will build observation towers along its land border with Russia's exclave of Kaliningrad, according to Polish news agency PAP.

Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has pledged a swift adoption of substantial changes to the judicial system that will result in Bulgaria outpacing Romania in terms of progress in combating corruption and organized crime.

Turkey's economic growth weakened last year to 2.9 percent, well down on 2013 and creating worries for the Turkish government ahead of June legislative elections, official data showed on March 31.
      

Greece saw the European Union?s biggest decline in the number of road deaths per 1 million inhabitants between 2010 and 2014, according to data made public on Tuesday by the European Commission.

Road deaths fell by 37 percent to 72 per million inhabitants last year, compared to 2010.

The average decline in the EU during this period was 18 percent.

Deputy Prime Minister Meglena Kuneva announced on Tuesday that Romania's top anti-corruption officials will visit Bulgaria in March at her invitation.

Horia Georgescu, the President of Romania's National Integrity Agency, which represents the country's anti-corruption body, will visit Bulgaria on March 24 and 25, daily Dnevnik reports.

Bulgaria's Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov on Thursday discussed Eastring, a new Slovak proposal for diversifying gas supply infrastructure in Europe, with Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Mitov arrived on an official visit to Slovakia on Thursday at the invitation of Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak.

The Turkish Foreign Ministry has said Turkey ?mistakenly? declared inaccurate coordinates for long-distance dangerous areas over Aegean Sea and canceled the Notice to Airmen (NOTAM).

Ankara would not declare a new dangerous area for a certain period of time, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said in a written statement on March 3.

The last time George Papandreu became prime minister, he had to tackle Greece?s deep economic crisis.