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The Minister of Innovation and Growth Alexander Pulev and President Rumen Radev will participate in the ceremony of Bulgaria's accession to the European Battery Alliance, organized by the Bulgarian Investment Agency (BAI) and the European Battery Alliance (EBA).

At the event, BAI and EBA will sign a declaration for Bulgaria's accession to the Alliance.

Turkey will partially resume face-to-face school lessons for the 12th grade on March 1, the National Education Ministry announced on Feb. 12. 

The second semester of the 2020-2021 school year will start Monday with distance education, said the ministry in a statement, adding that as of March 1, in-class lessons would start for students in the 12th grade with reduced student numbers.

Global bank capital rules should be applied in full across the European Union, the bloc's banking watchdog said on Monday, dashing industry hopes for leniency after a decade of intense regulation.

The stress tests that Greek banks are due to undergo in the coming weeks will provide an important waypoint in the country's efforts to get back on the path to normality.

The European Banking Authority is scheduled to release the macroeconomic scenarios for European banks' stress tests on Wednesday, although certain sources say this may be postponed until the end of the week.

Along with banks that have signaled they will be moving jobs abroad, Brexit will probably see the European Banking Authority leave London -- and rival cities are jockeying to be its next host.

The London headquarters of the European Union's financial regulator, in the Canary Wharf district, has 170 staff members from 27 of the 28 European Union nations.