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Turkish business group warns of lagging behind in transatlantic trade talks
All projections indicate that Turkeyâs economy would eventually be harmed due to the eventual integration of the worldâs two largest economies through the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), the head of Turkeyâs leading business club has warned.
Romania Hits ‘Technical Recession’ Despite Annual Growth
A seasonal rise in industrial activity helped Romania's economy to grow by an annual 2.4 per cent in the first six months of the year, according to data released on Wednesday by the Statistics Institute, INS.
Balkan Economic Competitiveness Makes Uneven Progress
The newly-published Global Competitiveness Report 2014-2015 said that Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia and Serbia had moved up in the world competitive rankings, while Croatia and Albania dropped a few positions.
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Bulgaria's President Plevneliev: Turkey Is Very Important To Us
“Turkey is very important to us, because we have the strategic goal to diversify our energy supplies,” Bulgaria's President Rosen Plevneliev told the Bulgarian National Radio.
Plevneliev is in Turkey to attend the inauguration of Recep Tayyip Erdogan as president of the country.
Greek MP Nikolopoulos insults Luxembourg PM on Twitter
Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel took to Twitter on Thursday to insist that relations between him and Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and between the two countries are perfect after being on the receiving end of a homophobic tweet from an independent Greek MP.
Folk dancers from around the world perform at Syntagma Square
Folk dancers from Panama participating in Earthdancers, an international dance and music festival, performed in Syntagma Square, central Athens, on Wednesday.
In its fourth year, the festival began on Wednesday and is to run through Sunday with more than 300 dancers and musicians from nine countries participating in performances across Attica.
Record number of Turkish tourists set to visit Greece
For the first time ever, Greece is projected to receive about 1 million Turkish tourists this year representing a roughly 50 percent increase on the figure three years ago according to the association of hoteliers in Thrace, northern Greece.
IEP: Serbia is safe country
IEP: Serbia is safe country
NEW YORK -- Serbia ranks 52nd in the Global Peace Index (GPI), produced by the New York-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).
This index ranks it among the top 30 percent of the safest countries in the world.
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Unionization in Turkey dragging below 10 pct
Union membership in Turkey remains below 10 percent, falling far behind European Union and OECD averages, freshly announced data from the Labor Ministry has shown.
According to statistics announced by the ministry, only 1.189 million of 12.28 million workers are union members, constituting just 9.6 percent of all workers.
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The Legacy of the First World War
âIt was not worth even one life,â said Harry Patch shortly before he died in 2009 at the age of 111. He was the last survivor of the 65 million soldiers who fought in the First World War, and by the time he died it was a normal, quite unremarkable thing to say. But he would never have said it in 1914.
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