The bill of the interior ministry on the new immigration code, featuring many changes and improvements, passed on Friday by a majority in the competent parliamentary committee.

The Greek parliament will need, by May, to approve  dozens of measures to make its economy more competitive, as condition for receiving further funds from the troika with which it resumed bailout talks on Monday.

Bills being passed by the Ukrainian parliament after the flight of Viktor Yanukovich have caused the ire of Ukrainians of Russian descent, as well as Moscow, and are raising eyebrows around the world.