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Aegean Airlines and its subsidiary Olympic Air have canceled all scheduled domestic and international flights on Thursday following the decision of air-traffic controllers to join a 24-hour nationwide strike.

European Commissioner for the Internal Market Thierry Breton is arriving in Bulgaria on Wednesday for a meeting with the defense industry, the European Commission announced to the National Television.

The purpose of the visit is to encourage the arms industry to rapidly increase its production capacity in order to have ammunition for Ukraine.

A return to fiscal discipline in 2024, with no margin for extraordinary benefits, as well as a gradual abolition of support measures against energy hikes, is the European Commission's fiscal guidance to be delivered to EU finance ministers on Monday and Tuesday.

The General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE), the Civil Servants' Confederation (ADEDY), and the Panhellenic Maritime Federation (PNO) have all called for a further nationwide strike on Thursday over the deadly rail collision at Tempe.

France's Senate voted early yesterday to approve a deeply unpopular reform to the country's pension system, hours after demonstrators took to the streets to oppose the cornerstone policy of President Emmanuel Macron's second term in office.

BRUSSELS - EU Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson has announced she would travel to Serbia next week to visit the Hungarian-Serbian border, where EU Frontex Police personnel have been deployed.

At a press briefing on Thursday, Johansson said the deployment of the Frontex mission was a part of efforts aimed at preventing illegal migration on the Western Balkans route.

There were calls for flexibility but also for a clear set of rules as the Finance Ministry and the European Commission Representation in Slovenia hosted a high-profile event to discuss efforts for the EU's new economic governance framework at Brdo pri Kranju on 9 March.

BUDAPEST - Hungarian FM Peter Szijjarto said on Thursday the EU must be aware it needed the Western Balkans more than ever and added that, for its part, Hungary was able to accelerate accession processes in terms of the security policy.

BUDAPEST - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic said on Thursday the EU enlargement policy must be revitalised with the idea that countries must become members based on set criteria.

Speaking at a ministerial panel of the Budapest Balkans Forum, Dacic noted that there was a crisis of EU accession criteria.

Insufficient checks and safeguards on how EU member countries spend a massive aid program designed to help them bounce back from the crisis caused by the Covid-19 pandemic are creating possibilities for fraud and mismanagement, the bloc's financial watchdog warned on Wednesday.