Policy

Turkey's Justice Ministry announced on Feb. 18 that COVID-19 vaccines have begun being administered to detainees and convicts at penal institutions. 

More than 29,000 people in Turkey violated weeknight curfews and full weekend lockdowns between Feb. 8 and Feb. 15, the country's Interior Ministry has announced.

"The public largely followed the curfew and lockdown measures. But administrative and procedural actions were taken against a total of 29,048 people for violating the rules," the ministry said in a statement on Feb. 15.

He is announcing strict lockdown measures

Greece's Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned the twin suicide bombings in the centre of Baghdad on January 21, expressing the country's full solidarity with the people of Iraq.

An Istanbul court on Jan. 22 overturned the acquittal of nine defendants, including businessman Osman Kavala, in a case regarding Gezi Park events of 2013 that led to nationwide protests.

The 3rd Criminal Chamber of Istanbul Regional Court of Appeals made its decision on appeals against the acquittal ruling by the 30th Heavy Penal Court in Istanbul.

In his current statements to the regional media, Serwer has presented some possible measures supposedly intended to reform the Dayton arrangement. His argumentation is based primarily on a call for more centralisation that would limit the powers of Bosnia's ethnically defined entities and cantons.

Companies aspiring to export their farming and agricultural products to non-European Union states such as the US, Canada, Australia and Japan must apply to do so online at easyagroexpo.gov.gr, which has just been launched.

The government is facing hard legislative and executive work ahead to complete the privatization projects that have been ongoing for a long time and to proceed with others that have run into problems. At the same time, it will take an extra push to start other projects concerning the privatization of state assets that have not been utilized.

Ljubljana – The National Assembly voted 44:40 on Tuesday in favour of a last-minute amendment to the latest economic stimulus bill that the coalition Modern Centre Party (SMC) tabled to reinstate public financing of the Slovenian Press Agency (STA).

Ljubljana – The government has drafted changes to the public procurement act that expand the definition of low-value contracts, and under which contacts valued at over EUR 10,000 would be published exclusively on the public procurement portal. The changes also look to soften the rules for the exclusion of bidders with outstanding liabilities.