News archive of May 2015

Swedish builder Skanska said May 29 that its LaGuardia Gateway Partners consortium had been selected as preferred bidder in a $3.6 billion project to build a new terminal at New York's LaGuardia Airport.

By Jan Strupczewski

Damned if you do, damned if you don't. Some eurozone countries are accusing the European Commission of giving Greece false hope of new loans for less reform effort, but they still want Brussels to find a way to keep a defiant Athens in the euro.

Greek authorities say 12 Russian tourists have been injured in a lightning strike at the archaeological site of Knossos, on the southern island of Crete.

Alparslan Bayraktar was elected as the new chairman of the International Confederation of Energy Regulators at the sixth World Forum on Energy Regulation in Istanbul on May 28.

Bayraktar is a commissioner in the Energy Market Regulatory Authority of Turkey (EMRA) and he also serves as the chairman of the Energy Regulators Regional Association, ERRA.

The Finance and Advice for Women in Business Program, funded by the European Union, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) and the Republic of Turkey, was introduced to local women-led businesses in the Central Anatolian city of Kayseri on May 28.

The political crisis into which Macedonia has plunged over the past years is affecting neighboring states as well, the country's opposition leader has said while on a Friday visit to Sofia.

Three decades after he first came to power in a military coup, Muhammadu Buhari will be sworn in on May 29 as elected President of Nigeria, giving him control of an African giant struggling with slowing economic growth and a raging Islamist insurgency.

The identities of the armed robbers who stole money and goods from a store in Sofia have now been established.

The recording of the blatant crime was released on Facebook the morning after the incident. The store owner expressed the hope that this will help the investigation.

The Kosovo assembly has postponed a sitting on constitutional amendments that would allow for a special war crimes court for the former KLA to be formed.

The decision came at the request of Hashim Thaci's Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK), it was announced in Pristina on Friday.

Romanian Foreign Ministry's (MAE) Secretary of State for European Affairs George Ciamba, together with his French counterpart Harlem Desir, on Thursday, on the occasion of his visit to Paris for consultations on bilateral topics and European affairs, paid a visit to the Renault technical centre (Technocentre Renault) of Guyancourt, near the French capital.