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Organized by the European Design Organization in a different European city each year, the ninth edition of European Design Conference and Awards Ceremony was held in Istanbul on May 23 2015. At the Award Ceremony the European Design Agency Award, ED-Awards Best of Show and ED-Awards Jury Prize were presented.

Turkey and Greece should resolve their problems peacefully by creating common interests in the region, making use of the ?God-given? opportunity of being neighboring countries, Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has said. 

By Alexandra Kassimi

Over 140 weekly flights on new routes, an additional 189 flights on existing routes and 10 new destinations make up the picture at Athens International Airport this summer, which will likely be a very busy one.

The tenth consecutive round of negotiations between the EU and the US regarding the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is set to start Monday in New York.

Talks continue as the proposal for an economic agreement was made more than two years ago. The idea behind it was for the biggest trade zone in the world to be created.

By Raine Tiessalo & Kati Pohjanpalo

Finland?s election is a clear call for politicians to stop arguing over the fate of Greece and instead turn their attention to their own economic troubles.

That?s according to Olli Rehn, the former European Union economics chief and a member of the Center Party that won Sunday?s election.

Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Europe on April 18 to oppose the world's biggest free trade pact between the US and European Union.

By David Goodman

In the depths of the euro region?s debt crisis, Italy?s finance minister compared the currency with the Titanic: if one country goes down, they all do.

Less than four years later, with the prospect of a Greek exit at the fore once again, investors are betting the European Central Bank has made the rest of the region unsinkable.

BELGRADE - United States Secretary of State John Kerry sent a letter on behalf of U.S. President Barack Obama to Serbia's President Tomislav Nikolic, indicating that the U.S.-Serbia relations are growing stronger and following an upward trend, the Serbian president's media relations office said in a release.

HELSINKI ? Greece could be forced to leave the eurozone soon if it fails to meet the conditions laid down by the Eurogroup to receive further funding, the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat said on Thursday, quoting a secret memorandum by the Finnish Finance Ministry.

When the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union dissolved, a new era of democratic expansionism was heralded, as Francis Fukuyama declared the end of history, optimistically assuming human ideological evolution had ended and liberal democracy ultimately triumphed over the authoritarianism of communism and fascism as the final form of human government.