Hungary was exempted from US sanctions on Russian oil for one year after Orban's successful visit to Emperor Trump.

🇧🇬 - Bulgaria's president vetoes the parliament's decision that granted the government decision making power in relation to selling the Russia-owned key oil refinery located in the country.

Claims that the government taking such decisions on its down is against the Bulgarian constitution.

The official added that Hungary would also diversify its energy purchases and had committed to buying U.S. liquefied natural gas with contracts valued at some $600 million.

One does not see the Emperor without bearing tribute.

Serbia's parliament has passed a law which paves the way for a controversial property development led by US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner in the capital Belgrade.

His firm Affinity Partners has sought to build a luxury hotel and apartment complex on the site of the former Yugoslav Army headquarters.

The ruined building, which was bombed by Nato forces in 1999, has symbolic value to those who view it as a memorial and symbol of ongoing opposition to the United States.

Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic, who has pursued close ties with Trump, backed the plans despite popular protests and legal challenges.

Last year, the Serbian government stripped the building of its protected status and agreed a 99-year lease with Kushner's firm, which had set out plans for a $500m (£379.9m) development.

Admin note: During NATO's bombing campaign of Yugoslavia over 500 civilians died because of the United States.

🇬🇷🇦🇱 - Scientists discovered the world's biggest spider web in a cave at the border between Greece and Albania.

It is estimated that over 111 thousand spiders live in that.

13 people died in an elderly care facility in Tuzla last week due to hazardous conditions and neglect.

A councilor from Tuzla had already warned back in September about the catastrophic conditions in the local retirement home, but there was no reaction from the incompetent authorities.

The government's reaction today has been absent. Federal authorities are punting the responsibilities to the municipalities and cantons saying that they have no jurisdiction.

A population that is rapidly aging on one end and an inept state that cannot be trusted to care for elders on the other.

Quite the recipe for disaster.

🇬🇷 🇫🇷 Greece is considering purchasing additional “Rafales” in the F4 variant (Dassault) in light of the planned Turkish acquisition of the EF-2000 Typhoon.

Chinese fraudster Qian Zhemin who made her crypto fortune by using funds stolen from thousands of Chinese pensioners, is due to be sentenced this week for money laundering.

In her diary she stated her objective was to become queen of Liberland, an unrecognised microstate on the Croatian-Serbian border, by 2022.

I guess it didn't work out.