News archive of January 2017

Turkey's tourism revenue dropped to $22.1 billion in 2016, a 29.7 percent decrease compared to 2015, as the number of foreign arrivals to the country witnessed a dramatic plunge, official data showed Jan. 31. 

Information Commissioner Rodoljub Sabic says it is necessary for the state bodies to change their attitude to personal data protection.

Sabic spoke on he occasion of Data Privacy Day, Beta reported.

Jennifer O’Connor is an American singer-songwriter. She has released a series of well-regarded solo albums, and has either toured or played with Wilco, the Indigo Girls, Feist, Yo La Tengo, Dump, and the Mountain Goats, among other bands and musicians. Paste Magazine has called her a “songwriter’s songwriter,” describing her albums as “master classes in economy and clarity.

Turkey's Central Bank has signaled it will continue to adopt unorthodox ways to support the Turkish Lira, while also revising its inflation forecasts upward.
 

BELGRADE - Serbia is still in the process of establishing real foundations for true cooperation and development of relations with Qatar, Serbian FM Ivica Dacic said after signing with his Qatari counterpart, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Bin Jassim Al Thani, a memorandum between the two foreign ministries on establishing political consultations on matters of joint interest.

Analyst Obrad Kesic says the news that the Trump administration wants "the state" of Kosovo to have its own army is - fake.

ATHENS - Serbia has a key role in the wider Balkan region and, primarily for the sake of regional stability and development, it would be desirable for it to become a full member of the European family, Greek PM Alexis Tsipras has said ahead of Tuesday's visit to Belgrade.

BELGRADE - Macedonia's (FYROM) president on Monday resumed the search for a new prime minister after the former premier failed to form a government, despite his party's narrow election victory, EurActiv.com reports.

The December vote was held as part of a European Union-brokered deal between Macedonia's four main political parties aimed at ending a long-running political crisis.

The number of doctors leaving Bulgaria in search of better perspectives abroad has falled over the past two years, former Deputy Health Minister Vanyo Sharkov has said.

Patiens who earlier would travel to Turkey for treatment now choose hospitals in the country, the deputy minister, who left office earlier in January, has told the Bulgarian National Television.

Aegean Motorway, the highway construction and operation consortium that the Infrastructure Ministry had said would not get any fresh funds given that its project (on the Athens-Thessaloniki national road) was advanced enough, is after all recieving additional money set to total tens of millions of euros.