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The beginning of 2017-2018 academic year will see the tuition fees for certain BA and MA programs of some state universities across the country go up by 13.6%, reported Standart News.

The increase is also for the medical schools, Varna Medical University is the only one to set higher tuition fees for its programs Medicine, Pharmacy and Dentistry. The increase is by BGN 300 a year.

In about a week's time, the public in Macedonia should learn important details about the millions of euros that the last government spent on assisting and subsidizing foreign investors, the new Social Democrat-led government said.

A federal judge on Friday approved $125 million in fees and costs for lawyers who sued Volkswagen AG on behalf of U.S. owners of 88,000 3.0 liter diesel vehicles over excess emissions.

That is on top of $175 million in fees and costs approved by U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer in March for a related 2.0-liter VW diesel settlement covering nearly 500,000 owners.

The government is planning to issue invitations for the implementation of projects adding up to 10.7 billion euros within this year, in an effort to spur growth in the economy, which remains in stagnation.

Students are occupying the Athens Law School for a second week to protest what they say are excessive tuition fees for its postgraduate programs.

The students, who are demanding the immediate cancellation of the 1,200-euro fee, say that exorbitant cost makes it next to impossible for some students to continue their studies.

The new investment incentives bill put up for public consultation on Thursday provides for stricter procedures on the concession of subsidies, as well as new categories of subsidized expenses, such as salary costs.

A local court in Turkey's southeastern province of Diyarbak?r has fined the Ministry of Defense a total of 548,000 Turkish Liras for pecuniary and non-pecuniary damages to a victim, who died in custody allegedly due to torture.

One of Manhattan’s most expensive restaurants has been forced to pay its waiting staff 500.000 dollars in court, after the New York General Attorney ruled it had illegally withheld their tips.

The base unit rate of the overflight fee will be reduced from EUR 37.53 to EUR 30.99 through changes to the ordinance on fees for using airports and air navigation service in Bulgaria.

Dragan Vulevic, from Serbia's Ministry of Labour and Social affairs, says about 390,000 children in Serbia - about 23 percentage of the nation's children - live in families that receive child allowance as social support.