News archive of May 2020

The timber vineyard house of a lumberjack who died two years ago in the eastern Aegean province of Kütahya's Domaniç district, was moved to the center of the town by his friends to keep his memory alive.

When Ramazan Akgüneş died two years ago, the wooden house he built remained idle in the village of Durabey.

It is planned that Air Serbia will start renewing flights from Nis on June 16, while the planes of the Serbian national airline from Kraljevo will fly starting on June 30, 2020, the national airline announced.

Deputy Environment Minister Krassimir Zhivkov and the businessmen Bobokovi brothers on May 28 were detained for 24 hours.

The fast train № 2602 from Varna to Sofia derailed in the section between Levski and Pordim after a motorist made an attempt to go though railway level crossing when it was closed and crashed into the first carriage of the train.

The Greek government is planning to set up four new committees aimed at bolstering key areas of the economy as part of efforts to offset the impact of the coronavirus crisis.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the recently announced buyouts of the Greek companies Softomotive and Think Silicon, by two giant global technology companies, Microsoft and Applied Material, respectively, were landmark successes for the development of advanced technology in Greece.

Fadil Novalic, the caretaker Prime Minister of Bosnia's Federation entity, was detained Thursday overnight by the state law enforcement agency SIPA together with the head of the Civil Protection and the owner of a private company as part of an investigation into the purchase of allegedly overpriced Chinese respirators. 

The fundamental objective of the National Liberal Party (PNL) government is to change Romania's development vision by moving from an "artificial" economic growth, based on encouraging consumption "without support in economic reality," to one based on investment, both public and private, Prime Minister Ludovic Orban said on Friday.

The US State Department has blacklisted Amir Zukic, a disgraced former high-ranking official of the main Bosniak Party of Democratic Action, SDA, for being involved in corruption.  

In Turkey, a total of 40,171 first- and second-hand vehicles were registered in April, the country's statistics authority revealed on May 29. 

April's figure was down 26.1% year-on-year and it marked a 44.3% drop compared to the previous month due to the coronavirus containment measures, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat).