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Turkey's purchase of a Russian air defense missile system should not trigger US sanctions because Ankara is not an adversary of Washington and remains committed to the NATO alliance, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said on Monday.

Grushko assessed that the alliance has gone too far in the escalation of the conflict with Russia.

Fixed and mobile calls made from Romania to any country within the European Economic Area (the EU countries, plus Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein) will not exceed 0.19 euro (excluding VAT) per minute, or 0.06 euro for a text message starting May 15, 2019, Romania's National Communications Regulation and Administration Authority (ANCOM) reported on Monday.

The arbitration case brought by EVN against Bulgaria at the International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) at the World Bank in Washington is over, writes Capital.

The decision has not yet been published, but the Austrian firm has announced that it will not be paid the damages sought, which, according to unofficial information, was about 500 million euros.

More than a year after the then minister of migration policy Yiannis Mouzalas and Education Minister Costas Gavroglou heralded a program to teach Greek to adult refugees, courses have yet to start.

Turkish Treasury and Finance Minister Berat Albayrak held what officials from the ministry described as "very fruitful" talks with international investors and managers of large funds on the sidelines of the International Monetary Fund-World Bank spring meeting held in Washington.

Romania is a safe country for investors, as the country is registering progresses regarding the stability of its institutional framework and budgetary strengthening, the Public Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici asserted during his meetings on Saturday in Washington, with the officials of the rating agencies and with Poul Thomsen, Director of the European Department at the International Monetar

Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos met on Friday in Washington with the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, to discuss an agreement for the early repayment of part of the Fund's loans to Greece that would allow both sides to claim victory.

Ninety representatives of 54 national agencies from 35 countries in which it operates the European programme Erasmus + and the new programme of the European Commission called the European Solidarity Corps - participated this week in a working meeting which took pace in Bucharest.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is and has to remain a quotas-based institution and we are prepared to support even their increase, taking into account that the European Union is open to doubling at least the New Arrangements to Borrow (NAB), Romanian Public Finance Minister Eugen Teodorovici said on Friday in Washington.