United Nations Conference on Trade and Development data for 2011 show that among 177 countries in the world, Bulgaria is the 49th country as regards attractiveness for investment, whereas its southern neighbour is ten places behind it. However, as far as market activity and infrastructure are concerned, Greece is significantly ahead.

The supervisory Troika warned Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras that the Eurogroup meeting on Monday would not be easy for him.

The second joint meeting between Bulgaria and Greece will be held in Athens in October or November, announced President Rosen Plevneliev, who is on a two-day official visit to Athens and Thessaloniki.

Students at the Department of Media, Communication and Culture at Panteion University have found a way to connect the past with the present and to seek the comic side of the dramatic developments with which Greece is struggling today and struggled in the 19th century. They are the initiators and organizers of an exhibition, looking at the comic side of all major economic crises the country experienced through the eyes of cartoonists.

Members of the extreme right organization are openly threatening immigrants, the party is officially denying it.

Antonis Samaras is still undergoinh treatment and postponing meetings but on Thursday, he will not avoid meeting with the Troika and the three-day debate to give a vote of confidence in government.

The Bulgaria-Greece pipeline is crucial for the economic development of both countries and it will improve their energy security, Antonis Livanios, Executive Director of the Energy Stream CMG GmbH, Greece & Germany, told GRReporter.