News archive of June 2017

After almost four months, Croatia’s government-backed Council for Dealing with Consequences of the Rule of Non-Democratic Regimes met for the first time, but its specific goals remain vague.

The EU executive will discuss further measures with Italy and Greece in the coming week to help the Mediterranean states deal with irregular migrants, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on Friday.

TV host and sports reporter Dejan Andjus has been arrested on suspicion of racketeering a person who filed charges against him for attempted extortion.

According to the daily Blic, Andjus allegedly asked the person in question to give him "several tens of thousands of euros."

A total of 87 soldiers at a military barracks in the southwestern resort district of Marmaris were hospitalized in the Aegean province of Muğla over a period of three days after suffering from nausea and vomiting, Doğan News Agency reported on June 29. 

Turkey will not hike taxes on cigarettes in 2017 in a bid to contain inflation, Finance Minister Naci Ağbal told Reuters on June 30, as the government continues to struggle with double-digit growth in annual consumer prices.

Turkey is expected to swelter in a record heatwave coming from North Africa on June 30, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported. 

At some point in our lives we might go through rough patches that could even lead us to a shrink’s couch. But just imagine if the doctor listening to your most inner thoughts looked like Dominique Chatzioannidou. That’s right, this blonde bombshell has her own practice in Thessaloniki and gives advice to people on their lives.

British consumers have suffered the longest decline in their spending power since the 1970s, official data showed on June 30, although there was a sign that the economy may have recently gathered a bit of momentum.

Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic says that his country will maintain its "the road toward the EU" foreign policy course.

Lawyers and rights activists took up positions at major US airports as a weakened version of President Donald Trump's travel ban took effect late on June 29.

But there were no signs of the chaos that erupted when the first version of the restriction, derided as discriminatory against Muslims, was abruptly imposed back in January.