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Croatia is preparing a new law on family that will introduce many new provisions, to which the public has "reacted strongly," Croatian media are reporting.

One of these provisions will strip the right of a family that has no children to be considered a family.

The managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, is to meet on Thursday afternoon with the head of the Hellenic Bank Association, Nikos Karamouzis, and executives of Greek banks in London.

The aim of the meeting is to convince the Fund of the stability of Greek banks, according to sources.

Moldova's pro-European government on Wednesday adopted new regulations on granting citizenship to foreigners who invest significant sums in the country.

Poul Thomsen, the head of the International Monetary Fund's European department, has pointed to a shift in the Fund's position on Greek banks. 

There were one million migrants in the EU last year, half of whom do not meet the requirements to stay and should be returned to where they came from.

Given that Germany is the most powerful country in the eurozone and exercises complete control over the common currency bloc while also entertaining ambitions of a more international role, the magnitude of the defeat sustained by the established right-wing in Sunday's elections was much greater than the percentage collectively secured by the Christian Democrats and the Christian Social Party. <

Greece ranks last among the 137 countries surveyed by the World Economic Forum (WEF) in terms of the attractiveness of its tax system to investors, leading to the country dropping one more spot in the organization's global competitiveness chart for this year.

One third of the Greek population will be over 60 years old by 2525, according to the World Heat5lh Organisation (WHO). Italy, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Finland and Japan are also projected to have 30% of their citizens older than 60 years.

Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos praised Sino-Greek ties on Tuesday when he paid a visit to an exhibition of ancient Chinese science and technology at the Herakleidon Museum in Athens. The exhibition, "Ancient Chinese Science and Technology," is being hosted in Greece as part of the Greece-China 2017 Year of Cultural Exchanges and Cooperation in Creative Industries.

The European Commission and Serbia have signed an agreement to provide the EU candidate country with 27.4 million euros in assistance for its education system.

Speaking at the signing ceremony in Brussels on September 27, the EU's enlargement commissioner, Johannes Hahn, said that the money will help the Serbian education system to adapt to labor market needs.