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Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ekaterina Zaharieva met with Libya's Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohammed Tahir Siala in Brussels to discuss the upcoming visit to Bulgaria of Libya's Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj, said the press office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Vulnerable refugee boys in Greece are selling sex to get by and some are the using that money to buy sex from women in what was described as a "shocking" cycle of abuse by a charity, according to a reports by the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Friday.

Teachers and students were on Friday rallying outside the Education Ministry in the northern Athens suburb of Maroussi demanding more hirings of teachers for state schools.

Representatives of the Greek Teachers Federation (DOE) and the State secondary school teachers' union (OLME) were expected to meet with Education Minister Costas Gavroglou to voice their demands.

AP SOFIA, Bulgaria -  As Bulgarian children returned to school on Monday, 400 teaching positions remain unfilled across the country and Bulgaria's teachers' union predicts that the country's shortage of teachers will reach nearly 40,000 by 2026.

The shortage of lecturers in some subjects is compensated by retirees, inadequate teachers, or teachers are enrolled in the education system but remain for a year or even less. This is stated in the position of the Syndicate "Education" of the Podkrepa Labor Union.

Sofia. We have resources to provide enough teachers for this school year, said Minister of Education and Science Krasimir Valchev, Focus News Agency reports.

Sofia. Currently, there are a little over 1,700 job vacancies for teachers, Deputy Minister of Education and Science Tanya Mihaylova said in an interview with Focus News Agency about the new school year. In her words, this is a snapshot in the dynamic process of searching for and hiring teachers.

Sofia. For the upcoming school year, there are teacher vacancies in fine arts, music and physical training, Bulgarian Union of Teachers Chairwoman Yanka Takeva said in an interview with Focus News Agency about the challenges for Bulgarian schools the next school year.

The number of women engaging in prostitution has been on the rise in recent years, according to a study by Athens's Panteion University, which also found a marked increase in the number of customers.

According to the results of the research, the rise in prostitution began after 2010, coinciding with the social and cultural implications of Greece's financial and migration crisis.

An increase of 18% in teacher salaries will certainly happen, but from January 1, 2019. This was stated by the Minister of Education Krasimir Valchev.