Romania

The semi-finals of the Eurovision, which started on Tuesday in Denmark, will include only six participants from the Balkan region - Albania, Montenegro, Macedonia, Romania, Slovenia and Greece.

Viewers in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia and Turkey will only watch Eurovision from their TV sets.

“Being on the list of 'The 7 Most Endangered' opens a window of opportunity to rescue the sites but also means increased responsibility for national stakeholders,” the President of Europa Nostra and acting Dean of the European Investment Bank Institute, EIB-I, jointly said on May 4, presenting the list in Vienna, Austia.

Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov opened the Madrid Masters with a firm 6:2, 6:4 victory over Pablo Carreno Busta.

Despite falling behind with an early break, Dimitrov recovered quickly and left no chances for the Spaniard, taking care of matters in just an hour and ten minutes.

The military exercise, codenamed “Vector 2014”, is to end later this week and will involve some 1,600 naval personnel, the Romanian Defence Ministry confirmed on Monday.

“The exercise is organized annually and aims at training naval structures for their missions. It was planned around one year ago,” the ministry said.

The anti-immigration UK Independence Party (UKIP) is favored to win the most votes in the European Elections according to a poll of YouGov agency.

Nigel Farage's UKIP leads with 29%, followed by the Labour Party 26% and the Conservative Party of PM David Cameron with 23%, according to the survey for The Sun, published on Sunday.

VIENNA - The Subotica Synagogue has been included in the list of seven most endangered monuments in Europe, the leading European organisation for heritage protection Europa Nostra released.

BELGRADE - Sinisa Dragin's documentary film Forest has won the award for the most innovative feature length film at the international festival Visions du Reel 2014 in Nyon.

Starting with a mysterious report, Dragin analyzes historyin an original and slightly humorous way in his film.

International foundation assists the Balkans against organised crime

Romania's Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean has requested a strengthened presence of US and NATO forces in the country in response to the Ukrainian crisis.

Bucharest city council has approved plans to turn a natural delta in the south of the capital into a nature park and a recreational area.

The park, known as the “Delta between the blocks”, covers around 200 hectares, including some 80 hectares of water, in the middle of Bucharest.