Organizations

The Associated Press — A Bulgarian official says the Bulgarian citizenship of Russian millionaire Sergey Adonev has been revoked over a 20-year-old fraud conviction in the United States.

India's contributions to UN peacekeeping operations (UNPKOs) have been underscored by the experience and professionalism of India's armed forces. Speaking at the September 2015 Leaders' Summit in New York on UN Peacekeeping, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi had said:"The foundations of the United Nations were laid by the brave soldiers on the battlefields of the Second World War.

Representatives from 57 countries of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) have come together in Istanbul for the establishment of a network between their Red Crescent and Red Cross national societies in a bid to respond to humanitarian problems and reduce human suffering in the most efficient way across the member states.

The International Monetary Fund is optimistic on Greece's growth and employment prospects for this year, but is urging the government to stick to reforms to maintain the momentum.

In a report published Friday following five-day talks with officials in Athens, IMF officials say that the battered Greek economy is set to grow 2.4 percent this year, up from 2.1 percent in 2018.

Ensuring equal opportunities for women and men on the labor market is an important objective of the Romanian Presidency at the EU Council, said Deputy Prime Minister Ana Birchall, who represented the Romanian Government at the World Economic Forum in Davos, which took place between 22 and 25 January, being an annual event that gathers political leaders, diplomats, economists, representatives of

The political trilogues for the proposals transposing the recommendations regarding the swordfish, as well as the measures of the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean Sea (GFCM) were two of the topics tackled by the Romanian Presidency at the European Union Council in the first three weeks of tenure, a release of the Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry (MADR) sent to AGERPR

Education Minister Ecaterina Andronescu participated on Thursday in the Forum on the Future of Learning in Brussels, underscoring that the Romanian Presidency at the European Union Council will pay a special attention to promotion inclusion, excellency and mobility.

The European Commission on Thursday took Britain to the bloc's top court for allegedly breaching rules on tax breaks in commodities trading, just two months before Brexit day, reports AFP. 

The commission, the EU's executive arm, said it acted because Britain has improperly broadened a Value Added Tax exemption to commodities that were not originally covered under decades-old rules.

AGERPRES special correspondent Dana Piciu reports: The withdrawal of the UK from the European Union is an unprecedented process that will leave its mark over our future, Prime Minister Viorica Dancila stated on Thursday when presenting the priorities of the Romanian Presidency at the EU Council in the plenary session of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC).

Bulgaria plans to stop allowing wealthy foreigners to buy citizenship against investment, the justice ministry said on Tuesday, saying the scheme had failed to bring any significant economic benefits for the EU country, writes the Telegraph.co.uk