Special Service

An investment plan by Advent Technologies in Kozani, northern Greece, worth 64 million euros to develop innovative hydrogen fuel cell and electrolyte systems and create 650 job openings has been removed from the Plan for Just Development Transition because it was "problematic," officials said on Monday.

The first payment of 3.6 billion euros was received today, Friday, by our country from the Fund for Recovery and Resilience. The European Commission positively evaluated the relevant request, sent by the person in charge of the implementation of the Greek Program, Deputy Minister of Finance, Mr. Thodoros Skylakakis, after the fulfillment of the 15 milestones.

A three-week joint military exercise involving Turkish and Pakistani special forces ended on Feb. 20.

The closing ceremony of the drill ATATÜRK-XI 2021 was held at the Pakistani military's Special Service headquarters in Tarbela, northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkwa province, which borders neighboring Afghanistan, said a statement from the Pakistan Army.

Officials in Bulgaria say they have frozen several bank accounts that received millions of euros transferred from Venezuela's state-owned oil company, thenewstribune.com writes. 

Chief prosecutor Sotir Tsatsarov said Wednesday that the money was meant to be eventually sent to accounts abroad.