European Commission's Joint Research Center

Bulgaria recently endured an exceptionally hot and dry period, according to the latest JRC MARS Bulletin from the European Commission's Joint Research Center, which monitors crops across Europe. The report indicates that temperatures during this period exceeded normal levels by 2-3°C, marking the hottest conditions since 1975.

The European Commission's Joint Research Center (JRC), emergency services and the local community on the eastern Aegean island of Kos will hold a tsunami drill next Tuesday morning (Nov. 19), the Commission announced last Friday.

According to a study conducted by the European Commission's Joint Research Center on dual food quality in 19 EU member states, 9% of the products differed in composition, although their packaging was identical, the BNR reported.

Greece and other countries of Southern Europe, as well as Turkey, are seen facing increased water shortages over the next 30 years, according to a report this month by the European Commission's Joint Research Center (JRC).

Tofaş, a joint venture between Turkey's Koç Holding and Italy's Fiat Chrysler, has been named Turkey's largest research and development investor by a European research unit.