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Bulgaria's Parliament rejected on Tuesday a proposed ban on the announcement of results of opinion polls during election campaigns.

Twelve people were arrested overnight in Paris during clashes between the police and anti-government demonstrators following the nightly "Nuit Debout" sit-in, police said.

Tourists from all over the world are flocking to a small French seaside town where nudity is mandatory.

The Village Naturiste at Cap d’Agde is a magnet for nudists and has facilities, such as a nude bank, hairdressers, opticians and supermarket.

The privatization of the Smederevo steel mill is positive news, the chief World Bank economist in Serbia, Lazar Sestovic, has said.

He added that the same was true of the fact that one of the world's biggest companies in the sector was interested in the plant.

The Independent printed its last edition on March 26 after a 30-year run. It has now decided to go digital-only.

Alternate Finance Minister Tryfon Alexiadis admitted on Friday that more taxes will be imposed saying that “Of course there will be a further tax burden on 2016 incomes, but it will be fair and proportionate from a certain income level upwards”.

Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivaylo Moskovski has ordered the suspension of public procurement procedures for the construction of port and railway infrastructure.

The halted tenders concern the Bulgarian Ports Infrastructure Company and the National Railway Infrastructure Company.

The Serbian government declared on Thursday evening a nationwide emergency situation due to the flooding.

The decision was made after the session of the national emergency situations headquarters.

Serbia's Fiscal Council believes that the government should not loosen its restrictive fiscal policy too early.

Increasing economic growth and employment calls for making more efforts to improve the investment climate, this independent state body that reports to the National Assembly said.

Around 92 percent of Turkey's mainland is on a seismic belt with 95 percent of its population living on it, said Fuat Oktay, head of the Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD), in a written message published for the "1-7 March Week of Earthquake."