Gridlock

Boyko Borissov, leader of GERB, suggested that Bulgaria might soon face an eighth election, despite the fact that the seventh has yet to be scheduled or conducted. Speaking to journalists in parliament, Borissov criticized the current political climate, remarking that the parties are repeating the same actions over and over.

Two new ambulance parking bases in Thessaloniki will be established in the coming days to address severe delays in ambulance transfers caused by ongoing construction of the Thessaloniki flyover.

Ambulance drivers told state-run broadcaster ERT on Monday that there was daily traffic gridlock on both lanes of the peripheral road, causing significant delays in their operations.

In the rugged Rhodope mountains in southern Bulgaria, many voters have little hope that Sunday's parliamentary election, the nation's fifth in two years, will produce a stable government able to tackle corruption, inflation and poverty.

Demand for courier services has indeed soared due to the lockdown, overwhelming the companies in the sector, but the delivery delays have deeper causes and cannot be explained by seasonal factors or last month's Black Friday sales, according to sources in the industry.

A general election in Spain on Nov. 10 is unlikely to break the current political gridlock, as neither left-wing or right-wing parties are set to win a parliamentary majority, three polls for Spanish newspapers predicted on Nov. 4.

Snowfall has caused huge traffic jams and hampered train services in the Paris region as the French capital experiences its first real dose of wintry weather this season.

The Meteo France weather service put the greater Paris region on alert for snow and black ice on roads, among 28 departments it expected to be on alert across the country until late on Wednesday.

The Athens subway came to a standstill on Friday as Greeks protested against new reforms that parliament is set to approve on Jan. 15 in return for bailout funds, including restrictions on the right to strike, according to Reuters.

Two lanes on Istanbul's Bosphorus Bridge, officially known as the July 15 Martyrs Bridge, were closed to traffic on June 12 for maintenance, causing chaos to the city's already congested traffic.

A nearly 7-km-long traffic jam has clogged the roads between Bulgaria's Black Sea towns of Pomorie and Aheloy on Friday afternoon.

It takes as long as an hour to travel the distance, Bulgaria's National Radio (BNR) reports. Kilometers-long traffic jam was also generated in the opposite direction - from Sunny Beach resort to Aheloy.