Liberal democracies

Bulgaria occupies the 63rd spot when it comes to quality of life, according to a ranking of the US News and World Report.

There are as many as 80 countries in the list, based on a survey involving 21 000 people from 36 countries of all regions in the world.

Bulgaria's result means the country is below the average.

Serbia and Hungary have set up a working group to create "a joint tourist product" for third markets.

This was agreed during the meeting in Belgrade on Tuesday between Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic, and Hungary's Ambassador in Belgrade Attila Pinter.

Serbia and Hungary have set up a working group to create "a joint tourist product" for third markets.

This was agreed during the meeting in Belgrade on Tuesday between Serbian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Trade, Tourism and Telecommunications Rasim Ljajic, and Hungary's Ambassador in Belgrade Attila Pinter.

The window of opportunity to find a permanent solution to the Cyprus problem is closing - unless some players step in and stick their hands in to keep the window from closing completely.

One interesting player could be Israel. A Cyprus peace deal would speed up Israel's project to provide gas to Turkey, the new Israeli ambassador to Ankara said last week.

Greek Cyprus saw its best ever receipts from tourism in 2016, data showed on March 1, in a record year for the Mediterranean holiday island considered a regional safe haven.

Tourism income last year reached 2.36 billion euros ($2.48 billion) compared to 2.11 billion in 2015, an 11.9 percent increase, according to official data.

Greece's leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has called for greater "cohesion and solidarity" in Europe.

Tsipras was speaking ahead of a meeting with his Malta counterpart, Joseph Muscat, in Athens.

Malta currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union.

Migration was expected to be at the center of talks between the two men.

The leader of the extreme right Turkish Nationalist Movement Party (MHP), Devlet Bahceli openly threatened Greece that if its army wanted to be thrown into the sea again, the Turkish army was ready. Commenting on the recent increasing tensions between the two countries in the Aegean Sea, Mr.

Hungary has started to build a second fence along the southern border with Serbia, Reuters reported on Monday, citing Hungarian officials.

This move will "likely to exacerbate criticism from some of the country's European Union partners," the agency said.

BELGRADE - The Serbian tourism industry generated a 1.04 bln euro profit in 2016, Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday.

BRUSSELS - EU foreign policy and security chief Federica Mogherini will pay a working visit to Serbia next week, her office told Tanjug.

The visit will be a part of a March 1-4 tour of the Balkans, during which Mogherini will travel to Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia.

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