Politics and technology

The Bulgarian government and the IT industry must cooperate to create cyber-security infrastructure, said Bulgarian Cybersecurity Association President Miroslav Stefanov during an open discussion on "Public-Private Partnership Opportunities in the Field of Cybersecurity."

Business always goes a few steps, he said.

Cybersecurity is at the heart of the concerns in the European Union's Digital Agenda under the Romanian presidency of the Council of the European Union, and one of the files Romania is managing in this area is the establishment of a European Cybersecurity Competence Centre, Romania's Minister of Communications and Information Society Alexandru Petrescu told AGERPRES on Wednesday while attending

One Saturday in February, Ivan Bartos pitched up in an impoverished Czech neighbourhood mainly inhabited by Roma.

Rock-star thin with shoulder-length dreadlocks tamed in a ponytail, 39-year-old Bartos is the leader of the Czech edition of the Pirate movement, the third biggest party in this landlocked Central European state.

Moldovan NGO Parents in Solidarity launched an online petition on Tuesday asking the authorities to install video surveillance in kindergartens.

The petition was launched after videos were posted on social media by parents who had secretly recorded their children allegedly being abused by staff at kindergartens.

A campaign has drawn thousands of supporters on Change.org who proposed to change the borders of the Turkish province of Batman and base them on the famous logo of the superhero.

It houses key information and communication infrastructure important for the efficient functioning of electronic administration and the development of new services for citizens and businesses.

Through the years of the crisis, it has been proven that overtaxation and foolishly high rates of social security contributions lead to the legitimization and the growth of the black market.

Rather than solving the problem of tax evasion, it is making it even worse as there are entire professions that have realized they cannot survive within the system.

An online petition is calling for the Nobel Prize to be given to the Greeks of Lesbos due to their demonstration of compassion and sacrifice as thousands of refugees have inundated their island.

Activist group Avaaz hopes to gather more than 500,000 signatures by February 1. Already there are more than 351,000 signatures thus far. The organizers of the petition stress:

MEP Ramona Manescu on Friday said that because of its resources, Romania can get involved and succeed in Europe's cybersecurity as a leading partner in the shaping up of policies and their implementation.

Legal action has been taken against soldiers seen torturing a dog in an eastern military post after video footage of the incident began circulating online, the Turkish General Staff has said.