Member states of the Union for the Mediterranean

Representatives of the Tourist Board of Morocco and of Bulgarian touroperators are discussing the setting up of regular charter flights between Sofia and Rabat, reports Dnevnik.bg.

The main goal is to ease the travel between the two countries, according to Khalid Mimi, head of the organisation for Eastern Europe. 

A total of 49.3% of all Bulgarians live below the poverty threshold, a survey by Greek statistical institute EL.STAT shows.

Greece ranks fourth among EU countries in terms of the highest percentage of citizens living on the poverty line, Bulgarian Telegraph Agency informs.

Conference raises 1.8 billion euros for Balkan flood relief

A prosecutor on Tuesday brought multiple charges of theft against a 37-year-old man alleged to have stolen votive offerings from two churches in the region of Kastoria, northern Greece, and to have sold them in neighboring Albania for 1,600 euros.

The man was caught in the act of breaking into the collection box at Aghia Paraskevi Church in the village of Vasileiada on Sunday.

Greek Development Minister Nikos Dendias has called on citizens to withdraw their assets from foreign banks and return them the country.

By accepting the offer, they will be exempted from a fine for tax evasion, Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) Thessaloniki correspondent Katya Peeva quoted Dendias as saying.

The European Court for Human Rights, ECHR, on Wednesday ruled in favour of two citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina who sued the Ljubljana Bank and the state of Slovenia for not returning their foreign currency savings lost in the early 1990s.

Bosnia's Foreign Minister, Zlatko Lagumdzija, on Tuesday said he was confident that enough money would be raised at Wednesday's donors conference in Brussels to meet the country's immediate needs.

BELGRADE - Around 70 percent of Serbian citizens will travel abroad for various reasons this year, and in most cases the destination will be Greece, survey conducted by MasterCard company shows.

According to the survey, 69.4 percent of Serbian citizens will travel abroad in order to visit their family and friends, for work, education or vacation purposes.

It is not necessary to boost healthcare expenditure for 2014, Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski said Wednesday.

Oresharski told the Bulgarian National Television he had looked at "numbers" and found the deficit at the National Health Insurance Fund (NZOK) for this year was the same as that for the previous one.

Greece’s largest toy seller Jumbo saw an 8 percent rise in sales for its fiscal year, helped by a robust performance in Cyprus and Bulgaria, the company said on Tuesday.

The rise beat Jumbo’s guidance for annual sales growth of 4-6 percent, the company said in a corporate update.