Europe

With house prices in Bulgaria's ten largest cities having risen by 25-26% over the past two years, more and more people are buying real estate, with or without loans, fearing that house prices will rise further after the country joins the Eurozone

The extraordinary emergency measures ordered by Chief Veterinary Surgeon Martin Chudy in connection with the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak have come into force and will be valid until further notice

Job visa opportunities will be offered in 2025 for skilled workers in sectors such as technology, engineering, healthcare and finance; the measure aims at addressing the shortage of qualified professionals

Greenland's relations with the US and the island’s effort to be diplomatic deteriorated further as Mute Egede, Prime Minister, named as “highly aggressive” a delegation of senior officials that the Trump administration plans to send there this week

The country has joined the global donors of the International Development Association, an arm of the World Bank that supports the world's poorest nations

The European Investment Bank has granted Energie AG Oberösterreich a financing package of up to €400 million for the expansion of hydropower in Austria

The Jubilee has been inaugurated in the Archdiocese of Papeete, the largest archdiocese in the entire Catholic Church; twelve doors have been designated and opened in an area that spans a distance comparable to that between Tunisia and Scandinavia

Peter is Here, a Minecraft video game, has been unveiled; developed with Microsoft Minecraft Education programme in the frame of the jubelee for younger generations, it lets players explore St. Peter’s Basilica, learning about its wonders and heritage

Greeks celebrate a double holiday today 25 March: the country remembers the War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire or Greek Revolution (1821 -1830), the Greek Orthodox Church commemorates the Annunciation by archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary

One of the first in a series of new civil protection seminars was held in Teika, a suburb in Riga; according to the municipality, the response was excellent, but residents' assessment of the seminar's value was mixed

Vilnius Gediminas Technical University will receive €669.000 of funding from Google.org, the philanthropic arm of Google, thanks to which researchers will create a programme of 'Cyber Security Seminars' for 200 students from different academic disciplines

Citizens contributed to the planting of a forest of 10.000 poplar trees as part of the Donate for a Green Future initiative; the activity was completed on nine hectares in the village of Parata, in the eastern district of Dubasari