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Çetin Gürcün, secretary-general of the Turkish Travel Agencies Association (TÜRSAB), has been elected vice president of the United Federation of Travel Agents’ Association (UFTAA) at the organization’s general assembly meeting. 

Greece's jobless rate was steady at 20.9 percent in November, unchanged from an upwardly revised figure in October, the country's statistics service ELSTAT said on Thursday.

Seasonally adjusted data showed the number of unemployed at 995,899 people, with younger persons aged up to 24 bearing the brunt of being out of work.

A regular three-month survey by Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute (NSI) has found that consumer confidence in January 2018 was 1.1 percentage points higher than in October.

The rise was due entirely to increased confidence among the urban population, the NSI said on February 7.

The European Parliament has voted to remove the blocking of online trade based on geographic principle in Europe. Restrictions, also known as geoblocking, remain for audiovisual products and services as well as for transport services. This was decided by the MEPs who voted a 27-nation regulation on the issue.

FIFA and the Spanish government have agreed on the “need to clarify as quickly as possible” the situation regarding the
country’s football federation (RFEF) to avoid a potential World Cup ban.

The civil servants' union ADEDY is planning a 24-hour strike over the coming days to protest the government's continuing austerity program, sources indicated on Monday.

As part of its ongoing adoption campaign, the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) Turkey office has called on people to “adopt an animal” on Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day.

Fifteen Russians whose life bans for doping were lifted last week have been barred from the Pyeongchang Winter Games, the International Olympic Committee said on Monday, as Russia’s drugs conspiracy continued to reverberate just days from the opening ceremony.

The U.N. human rights chief warned Monday that possible acts of “genocide and ethnic cleansing” against Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslim minority could fuel a religious-based conflict that spreads beyond the country’s borders.

The 21st European Eco-innovation Forum is held today and Tuesday in Sofia Tech Park.

The Forum is organized jointly by the Directorate General for Environment of the European Commission and the Ministry of Environment and Waters. The event will be accompanied by a new protest action in defense of Pirin National Park.