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The owner of Britain's struggling Royal Mail said Wednesday it had accepted a takeover proposal from Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky worth 3.6 billion pounds ($4.6 billion).

It comes after Kretinsky's conglomerate EP Group formalized an improved offer for International Distribution Services (IDS).

An amendment broadening the postal voting regulations has been proposed to Parliament as part of the Health Ministry's legislation and is scheduled for a plenary vote on Thursday. 

Before email and messaging, we had regular mail and envelopes, which candidates for the national or European Parliament would send off to voters, only so they could form huge piles in the entrances to our apartment buildings.

Some 17,000 people have registered in just 11 days on the Interior Ministry platform for the postal vote, which creates optimism that the project will eventually be crowned with success.

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Britain's Royal Mail has "systemically failed" to meet its mail delivery requirement, lawmakers have said, calling upon regulator Ofcom to probe the postal operator.

"We believe that Royal Mail has systemically failed to deliver against parts of its universal service obligation," read a report from the cross-party Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee.

Ljubljana – The Mladi Plus youth trade union, which has been pushing for improved working conditions at food delivery companies Wolt and Glovo, intervened in Ljubljana on Friday as Wolt started tagging its couriers to curb traffic violations. Opposition to the tagging was also announced by Labour Minister Luka Mesec.

Nearly 10 per cent of judicial institutions in Bosnia and Herzegovina which responded to BIRN's FOI request insisted that requests for access to information be submitted in person or by mail, while some offered fax as an alternative.

BIRN sent inquiries to 96 courts and prosecutors' offices on how they receive requests for free access to information.

Brightly colored rectangles of cardboard fill almost every wall of Gesa Funke's apartment in southern Berlin, with piles more stashed in corners and drawers - some from places as far-flung as French Polynesia.

The 29-year-old student has been sending and collecting postcards for years.

Ljubljana – The government adopted an omnibus bill that would amend over a dozen laws and repeal dozens more in an effort to simplify bureaucratic procedures. The wide-ranging changes affect areas including official registries of laws and personal data, electronic serving of official documents and the powers of state secretaries.

Today, March 9, is the deadline for Bulgarians abroad to submit a written application form or send an electronic application through the website of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) to participate in the parliamentary elections on April 4.