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A new entrepreneurship support program for unemployed people aged 30-59 years old, with a focus on women, was signed by Minister of Labour and Social Security, Niki Kerameos.

A new entrepreneurship support program for unemployed individuals aged 30-59, with an emphasis on women, has been signed by the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Niki Kerameus.

Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras will travel to Brussels on Thursday to participate in the EU Transport Council. 

Discussions will focus on passenger rights, the improvement of services for all commuters, and road safety issues, such as the legislative initiative on disqualification from driving for serious offenses. 

Education Minister Sorin Cimpeanu, said on Thursday that an implementation schedule for the "Educated Romania" project will have to become available before September 10, adding that in order to achieve the intermediate objective of the project, the allocation 4.7% of the Gross Domestic Product for education spending, money from Romania's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), money from

With modification of three operational programmes under REACT-EU, the Commission has approved to provide extra €75.9m to Bulgaria and €57.5m to Sweden to help tackle the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.

The first video promoting Romanian higher education outside the country was released on Wednesday by the Executive Unit for the Financing of Higher Education, Research, Development and Innovation (UEFISCDI) and the Ministry of Education.

Only a third of citizens say they are satisfied with the quality of the education system as a whole, but the majority (59%) consider that university education in Romania is a quality one, according to an opinion barometer conducted within the project "Sustainable Romania" implemented by the General Secretariat of the Government through the Department for Sustainable Development.

More than BGN 1.2 billion was allocated hitherto for employment and social inclusion for dealing with the consequences of the Kovid-19 pandemic in Bulgaria, said Minister of Labor and Social Policy Denitsa Sacheva at the meeting of the Monitoring Committee of the Operational Program "Human Resources Development", which discussed the progress and amendment of the program, the Ministry press offi

Croatia has lost 500,000 workers over the last ten years - from 2008 to 2018. This is what Davorko Vidović claims, counselor for Labour Policy and Employment at CCE.

In a resolution adopted Thursday, MEPs expressed concern about the hundreds of thousands of blocked tourists (over 600,000), the thousands of jobs lost, the difficulties caused to small and medium-sized enterprises and the damage caused to the tourism sector by the bankruptcy of " Thomas Cook. "