Bulgaria

LUXEMBOURG - Bulgaria's public finance statistics are worrisome and should be checked by European Union officials, the bloc's economy commissioner said Tuesday.

CORDOBA, Spain - For many of Europe's estimated 12 million Gypsies, daily life is getting even worse and tens of thousands of children face shocking discrimination by authorities who shunt them off into schools for the mentally disabled, activists said Friday.

BUDAPEST, Hungary - Russian gas monopoly Gazprom and the state-owned Hungarian Development Bank signed a deal Friday setting up a company to develop Hungary's part of the South Stream gas pipeline project.