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A total amount of 35,000 euros raised during a charity concert in Brussels to support the "Fuel for Schools" initiative was handed over to the International Foundation for Greece on Monday to provide heating fuel to schools in remote villages in northern Greece.

''The National Assembly and the European Parliament (EP) go hand in hand.'' This was announced by the Speaker of the Parliament Tsveta Karayancheva, BGNES reported.

Recent statements made by US State Department official Brian Hoyt Yee represent "his views, that have not been harmonized with the EU."

This is what EU sources in Brussels told Beta on Tuesday.

BRUSSELS - The EU sees Serbia as a sincere and responsible partner and a candidate for its next wave of enlargement, Serbian PM Ana Brnabic said in Brussels Wednesday.

Brnabic said her two-day visit to Brussels was aimed at sending a clear signal that European integration was Serbia's top political priority.

Bulgaria is still looking for who to make the art installations to be installed in the Council of the European Union buildings in Brussels during the presidency of our country, reports Mediapool. 

Belgian police arrested a Spanish man suspected of recruiting for the Islamic State group and planning attacks in Belgium, in a raid near Brussels airport on Wednesday, officials said, The Local writes.
 
Officers, acting on a request from Madrid, swooped on the man's home in the city's Zavantem district, Belgian prosecutors said.

US State Department official Hoyt Bryan Yee thinks that "integration and transformation" of the Western Balkans is in the interests of Brussels, and the region.

Speaking in Bled, Slovenia, he added that the readiness for this on the part of EU institutions is what is currently missing.

The man shot on Friday after attacking two soldiers with a knife in Brussels has died, Belgium’s federal prosecutors said, adding they were treating the event as an attempted terrorist murder.

A spokeswoman for federal prosecutors said the man had shouted “Allahu Akbar” (Arabic for “God is Great”) twice during the attack.

Poland has called on the European Commission to end the criminal proceedings against it for failing to comply with its obligations to accept migrants in line with the quotas imposed by Brussels, Reuters reported.

British proposals to ensure an invisible Border after Brexit will not be discussed next week when the latest round of negotiations between the EU and the UK get under way in Brussels, The Irish Times.