News archive of March 2023

Namely, the Ukrainian activist group Cyber Resistance and the volunteer organization Inform Napalm announced that the commander of the 980th aviation regiment, Serhiy Atroshchenko, ordered planes to drop two 500-kilogram bombs on the theater in Mariupol on March 16, 2022.

BELGRADE - The governments of Serbia and North Macedonia signed on Friday in Belgrade three MoUs that will advance bilateral cooperation.

The documents were signed at a ceremony also attended by Serbian and North Macedonian PMs Ana Brnabic and Dimitar Kovacevski.

A Slovenian-led project on the role of death in the lives of individuals in modern society has won a European Research Council (ERC) advanced grant. Led by folklore researcher Mirjam Mencej, the €2 million effort will launch in September and last 5 years.

Petar's family have surprisingly accepted his life-changing decision, 'but the institutions have not,' he told BIRN.

Bulgaria's former Prime Minister and leader of the 'We Continue the Change' party Kiril Petkov speaks at a rally in Sofia, 30 March 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE/VASSIL DONEV

Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, who is currently in Nicosia for a trilateral meeting with the foreign ministers of Greece, Cyprus, and Israel, held a meeting with Cyprus President Nikos Christodoulides on Friday. 

Greece's jobless rate stood at 11.4% in February, up from a downwardly revised 10.3% in January, data from statistics service ELSTAT showed on Friday.

Seasonally adjusted data showed 526,742 people were officially unemployed, with those under the age of 24 the hardest hit.

Unemployment was more widely spread among women than men, with the rates at 15.8% and 7.8%, respectively.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis pledged that a new conservative government will not compromise on matters of national security, while challenging the leader of Greece's leftist opposition, Alexis Tsipras, to clearly state whether he would continue the construction of the fence along the Greek-Turkish border or dismantle it if elected.

The Finance Ministry and the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) on Thursday announced the interconnection of cash registers and tax mechanisms with card readers (POS) from June 2023. In a period of six months after the elections, POS are expected to be installed everywhere - i.e. in every business.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with North Macedonian PM Dimitar Kovacevski in Belgrade on Friday.

The two officials agreed that the relations between their countries were the best in modern history.