Austria

The European Commission has formally requested 18 member states among which Bulgaria to improve their Functional Airspace Blocks, Thursday.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Justice Minister Nikola Selakovic met on Wednesday with political director of the Austrian Foreign Ministry Jan Kickert to discuss Austria's support for Serbia in the accession talks with the EU and assistance in building a stronger judiciary.

BELGRADE - Jadranka Joksimovic, Serbia's minister without portfolio responsible for EU integration, underlined on Wednesday in talks with Jan Kickert, political director at the Austrian Federal Ministry for Europe, Integration and Foreign Affairs, that Austria's support is very important for Serbia along the EU path.

Pavel Kandel, Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow counts on Serbia's neutrality

The most important topics to be discussed on the occasion of premier Vučić's visit to Moscow are the implementation of the construction of the gas plant South Stream and the Ukranian crisis – says Russian Analyst Pavel Kandel.

Eric Abidal joined on Tuesday his new teammates at Zeefeld, Austria for their preseason training after Olympiakos confirmed on Saturday it had signed the veteran French defender on a two-year contract for an undisclosed fee.

Romanian police early on Tuesday removed a group of around 25 Greenpeace activists after they chained themselves to the gates of a Chevron shale gas exploration well in Pungesti, eastern Romania.

Dan Vodnar, a young scientist of the Romanian city Cluj-Napoca the inventor of anti-microbial packaging derived from gastropod shell, algae and other natural ingredients has become the first Romanian to receive the Danubius Young Scientist Award, the 2014 edition.

By Emelia Sithole-Matarise

Italian and Spanish bond yields nudged higher on Monday ahead of a slew of debt sales this week, but underlying sentiment in the lower-rated euro zone bonds remained firm thanks to a dovish European Central Bank.

A group of Greenpeace activists from seven countries on Monday staged a protest in Pungesti, at the site of the exploratory shale gas well owned by U.S. company Chevron, pressing for a ban on hydraulic fracturing for shale gas extraction, reads a release of the environmental organization sent to AGERPRES on Monday.

Seven ambassadors have expressed concern in a letter to the Bulgarian Parliament Speaker over restrictions proposed by the State Commission for Energy and Water Regulation (DKEVR).

The letter, signed by the ambassadors of Austria, UK, the Republic of Korea, US, France, the Czech Republic, and Japan, was submitted to Parliament on June 30, according to reports of Sega daily.