Political geography

The government is expected to announce by Friday how it will share out the so-called “social dividend” from Greece’s 2013 primary surplus, sources have told Kathimerini.

Eighty per cent of journalists in Macedonia think that conditions are worsening, 17 per cent say that they are stagnant and only 3 per cent believe that they are improving, according to new research published by Macedonia’s Independent Journalists' Trade Union, SSNM.

Eight cooperation agreements between Bulgarian and Chinese companies are expected to be signed during a business forum in the city of Plovdiv, Monday.

The CEOs and managers of more than 50 leading Chinese companies will take part in the Bulgarian – Chinese business forum, Standart news reports.

Immigrants will slow down the ageing of Bulgaria's population, but will not solve the demographic problem in the long term, shows a study of Bulgaria's Academy of Sciences (BAN). 

Nearly 70% of Bulgarians will spend this year's summer holidays in Bulgaria, shows an Eurobarometer survey. 

European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmstrom has arrived on a two-day visit to Bulgaria with regards to the refugee situation in the country.

"I welcome the recent steps that Bulgaria has taken to deal with the refugee wave," Malmstrom said during the conference called 'The Common European Asylum System: Challenges and perspectives', BGNES reports.

By Ilias Bellos

The Chinese companies active in Greece, whose numbers are on the rise, are creating a new, exclusively Chinese chamber of enterprises.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic has invited the Ukrainian embassy charge d'affaires to a meeting to discuss Ukraine's promotional video about joining the EU that featured a map of Europe without Serbia.

Socialist MP Martin Zahariev has said he will propose amendments to the Radio and Television Act concerning ownership and origin of funding for the media in Bulgaria

In a Sunday interview for the Bulgarian National Television (BNT), Zahariev explained that the legal changes concerned electronic media, newspapers and websites.

Former Bulgarian Energy Minister Rumen Ovcharov has suggested that electricity prices can remain unchanged by the European Parliament elections in May.