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Children at Greek primary schools are to receive training on driver etiquette and road safety from this year, the Education Ministry has announced.

The lessons will be offered to children in the 3rd and 4th grades, said Deputy Education Minister Alexandros Dermetzopoulos. They will include visual material and practical teaching that will take place in schoolyards.

Bulgaria's Deputy caretaker Regional Development Minister has listed the benefits of enhancing connectedness with Serbia in the spheres of economy, energy, transport and culture.

Yordanka Chobanova attended Monday the opening of the closing meeting under the 2007-2013 Bulgaria-Serbia cross-border cooperation program.

BELGRADE - The National Tourism Organisation of Serbia still does not have the exact data on the number of tourists who visited Serbia to attend various music events this summer, but the assessments show the country has become increasingly attractive for foreign tourists.

BELGRADE - Passenger vehicles have to wait 5 hours to exit Serbia at the Batrovci crossing along the border with Croatia, while the wait at the Horgos crossing, which leads to Hungary, is around 4 hours, the Interior Ministry office for media relations said on Sunday.

Croatian tourism notched up a slight decline in figures this July, although the figures for 2014 overall saw healthy growth.
In July, there were 0.4 per cent less arrivals and 2 per cent less overnight stays than in July 2013.  

IEP: Serbia is safe country

NEW YORK -- Serbia ranks 52nd in the Global Peace Index (GPI), produced by the New York-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).

This index ranks it among the top 30 percent of the safest countries in the world.

Nikolić attends WW1 event in Belgium

LIEGE -- Tomislav Nikolić has arrived in Liege, Belgium, and is attending the central event commemorating 100 years since the start of World War I on the western front.

“It was not worth even one life,” said Harry Patch shortly before he died in 2009 at the age of 111. He was the last survivor of the 65 million soldiers who fought in the First World War, and by the time he died it was a normal, quite unremarkable thing to say. But he would never have said it in 1914.  

BELGRADE - The province of Upper Austria is very interested in implementation of joint activities with the Serbian government in terms of the realisation of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region, Upper Austria Minister of Labour, Economy, Tourism, Sports and European Affairs Michael Strugl stated on Wednesday.

A survey of the German statistics service found that the vacation of the Germans in Bulgaria is by 52% cheaper than in their country. 

Second cheapest are Hungary and Romania – Germans there would pay by an average of 43% less for hotels and restaurants.

Poland is also cheaper – by 23%.