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Bulgaria's economy will grow by 1.4 percent this year, after 3.4 percent growth in 2022. This is stated in the spring forecast of the International Monetary Fund, whose managing director is Kristalina Georgieva. From there, they expect inflation in our country to decrease to 7.5 percent in 2023 after the growth of 13% on an average harmonized basis for 2022.

It was discovered in the summer of 2017: a marble slab with an inscription in Greek, embedded in the concrete floor, beneath the old tiles being replaced by two cousins in their grandparents' home in Karacakoy, northwest of Istanbul. "All we could make out was the date," one of the cousins, Kerem Soyyilmaz, tells Kathimerini. He took a photo of the slab and sent it to a Greek friend.

President Joe Biden keeps seeing good economic news and bad public approval ratings. The unemployment rate fell to 3.5 percent in March.

More than 236,000 jobs were added. But there has been no political payoff for the president.

U.S. adults are skipping past the jobs numbers and generally feeling horrible about the economy.

Nearly 28,000 foreign nationals have been deported in 2023 so far, the Interior Ministry's Directorate of Migration Management has announced.

In a post on its Twitter account, the directorate elaborated that nearly 2,500 irregular migrants were caught, while more than 1,800 were deported between March 31 and April 6.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday visited the Koukaki neighborhood at the foot of the Acropolis in Athens and spoke to citizens, defending his government's legacy and pledging to continue the progress made during his four-year term. 

More than 99 pct of the services provided by the public sector will be digital in the next four years, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said on Friday.

He said all the projects required to achieve this have been initiated, put up for tender and are financed by the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), "so they can essentially be ready in 2027."

The rhetoric, and now the laws, applied to irregular Albanian arrivals in the UK is discriminatory; it also ignores their lived experience in Albania and the UK's own data.

Even though Milan Krajniak, the minister for labour, social affairs and family, recently vowed to compile a proposal to aid approximately 50,000 people in need who have been unable to cover their expenses due to high levels of inflation, Karova and her colleagues are afraid that some of the most vulnerable homeless people will not be able to benefit from the aid.

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The Jewish Museum of Greece (JMG) and the Epigraphic Museum are co-hosting "Stone Paths - Stories Set in Stone: Jewish Inscriptions in Greece," a project that seeks to offer a fresh interpretation of what can be seen as an ancient form of graphic design.

A woman in her 50s died in an accident at the "Brikеl" thermal power plant, BTA reports, citing the district prosecutor of Stara Zagora, Dicho Atanasov.

The accident happened early in the morning on March 31.

"The woman was working on a machine that grabbed her hair, then pulled her whole body," explained Atanasov.