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A total of 315 employment contract violations against Bulgarian citizens working abroad have been reported in the first six months of 2014.

The General Labor Inspectorate Executive Agency has received 129 complaints from Bulgarian employees since the beginning of the year, Bulgarian Telegraph Agency informs.

Conference raises 1.8 billion euros for Balkan flood relief

BELGRADE - Representatives of the Public-Private Partnership Commission of Serbia and France staged a meeting in Belgrade on Monday, as a continuation of meetings between Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic and his French counterpart Manuel Valls which were held several weeks ago concerning the development and promotion of public-private partnerships and concessions.

Michael Schumacher is able to communicate with his family by moving his eyelids, and could return home by the end of the month, according to reports.

Consumer confidence in Greece improved by two index points in the second quarter of 2014 compared to the same period last year, reaching 55 points, though still significantly below the global average of 97 points, the latest Nielsen Global Survey of Consumer Confidence and Spending has found.

BELGRADE - Experienced Dutch coach Dick Advocaat takes over at the helm of Serbia's national football team, goal.com reported on Tuesday.

Advocaat, who is replacing the acting head coach Ljubinko Drulovic will remain in charge of Serbia for the next two years, starting from August 1.

France could renounce the sale of a second Mistral-class amphibious warship if EU leaders adopt tougher sanctions against Russia.

President Francois Hollande also announced it depended on "Russia's attitude" to the conflict in Ukraine whether the deal would be carried out, Bloomberg reported.

Qatar will host a meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sunday to try to push for an end to fighting in the Gaza Strip that has killed more than 300 people, a senior Qatari source told Reuters.
   

 In the wake of the recent attack on Nikos Marantzidis, the University of Macedonia professor talks about history, myth and failed dialogue

By Katerina Baoyannis *

Prof. Nikolay Nenovski, Denitsa Kirilova and Emil Karanikolov will be the three new members of the Supervisory Board of the Bulgarian Bank for Development JSC.

The three, who were elected at a regular general assembly of the bank's shareholders earlier this month, will replace Diana Dragneva-Ivanova, Rumen Porozhanov and Stefan Belchev, who held the position last year.