News archive of July 2015

70 percent of refugees are using the land route through the Western Balkan, says Minister without Portfolio in charge of EU integration Jadranka Joksimovic.

She was referring to migrants from third countries who are passing through the Balkans in their bid to reach EU countries.

The inactivity rate of young people aged 15-24 in the EU-28 varied from 32.6% in the Netherlands and 38% in Denmark to nearly 73% in Bulgaria and Italy, according to Eurostat data for 2014.

Around 58% of the men and women in this age group, or 32,4 million people in the EU-28, were economically inactive during that time.

Controversial app-based taxi-hailing firm Uber plans to invest $1 billion in India over the next nine months, the company's local head said in a statement emailed to AFP on July 31.

Microsoft says its' new Windows 10 operating system is now running on more than 14 million computers, two days after the software was released as a free download.

That's a far cry from the company's goal of getting Windows 10 onto a billion devices within three years.

Airbus Group has told buyer nations of the A400M transporter  aircraft that it cannot deliver all of its high-tech defences according to plan, casting a shadow over some of its military uses as Europe battles growing instability on its borders. 

The Belgrade Free Zone was officially established on Thursday, offering many facilities to investors on two locations totaling around 98 hectares.

Also established during a Belgrade City Council session was a limited liability company that will manage the Belgrade Free Zone.

Russia is not ruling out the possibility of introducing "reciprocal measures" toward Montenegro, Albania, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Ukraine.

This has been reported by Sputnik. These countries have joined EU's anti-Russian sanctions.

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has signaled the possibility of a snap election, noting that the country will need to go to the polls once more if ongoing coalition talks do not bear fruit.

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras focused for the first time on former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis’ creation of Plan B. Opposition socialist PASOK leader Fofi Gennimata asked the prime minister to give details on the secret plan for a parallel currency that included hacking into people’s tax codes which has incited law suits.

Bulgaria loses at least 1 million Turkish tourists a year due to problems with visas, according to Cemal Tekkanat, adviser for tourism at Turkey's Tourism and Culture Ministry.