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Romania, who holds the EU presidency, envisaged that day as the possible date for an intergovernmental conference, and it is currently assesed that it would be realistic to expect the opening of two new chapters at most.

There will be negative growth in Turkey this year but the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are expecting a recovery in 2020 and in fact this recovery is an important part of the element that goes toward the whole global recovery, Gita Gopinath, IMF chief economist, has said.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Tuesday that it expects the Bulgarian economy to grow by a real 3.3% in 2019, up from its October 2018 projection for 3.1% growth, reports SeeNews. 

Bulgaria's gross domestic product is then expected to rise by a real 3.0% in 2020, the IMF said in the latest edition of its World Economic Outlook (WEO) report.

Remarkable gains have been made in expanding choices for women since 1969, when UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, was established. But despite progress, hundreds of millions of women today still face economic, social, institutional and other barriers that prevent them from making decisions about fundamental aspects of their lives.

Romania's Minister-delegate for European Affairs George Ciamba chaired a new meeting of the General Affairs Council (GAC) in Luxembourg on Tuesday under the Romanian presidency of the EU Council that dealt with the Multiannual Financial Framework 2021-2027, the adoption of the Council Conclusions on the Agenda 2030 on Sustainable Development, reviewing the status of work within the procedures u

Last year, Bulgarians, working and living abroad, sent back almost 2.4 billion dollars (2.13 billion euros) back to the country. This is equal to 3.8% of Bulgaria's GDP, and the amount is forecast and calculated on the basis of IMF data, official national statistics and the national bank. Outside of these money transfers there is a cash transfer, but their amount is not part of statistics.

Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Tuesday confirmed recent reports that the government is planning to pay off early a part of the country's high-interest debt to the International Monetary Fund.

This has been done "in connection with NATO's exercise in the Black Sea," the news agency said, citing the Russian Defense Ministry's National Defense Control Center.

Turkey is plunging into a deep crisis. It's impossible to predict what shape the country will be in a few months from now. There's simply no overarching plan.

If there is one, it remains locked inside the brain of a single man whose sole objective is to keep himself (and, after he's out, his family) in power - ad infinitum.

Minister-delegate for European Affairs, George Ciamba, on Saturday had a meeting in Washington with members of the Atlantic Council, an organization that promotes the strengthening of the Transatlantic relations, on which occasion he talked about the need to agree on a set of definitions for important phenomena, to help avoiding that gaps between the EU and the US become deeper.