:News Archive
10. February 2010.
Serbia, BiH restore diplomatic ties thanks to Turkey
06:51 |
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| EMportal, Hürriyet Daily News
Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia have agreed to restore bilateral ties, ending three years of frozen diplomatic relations as a result of three-way informal discussions initiated by Turkey.The Serbian and Bosnian foreign ministers, Vuk Jeremić and Sven Alkalaj, gathered in Ankara
New European Commission elected
06:58 |
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| EMportal, EUbusiness.com
On 9 February in Strasbourg, the European Parliament elected the new European Commission by 488 votes in favour, 137 against and 72 abstentions.
Third Caspian Energy Forum due in Moscow
07:01 |
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| Azertac
The event is to be organized by the ministries of foreign affairs, natural resources and ecology of Russia, trade-industry chamber and Russian academy of sciences, the CIS Executive Committee said.
UN envoy Nimetz to visit Skopje on February 23
07:02 |
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| MIA
UN envoy in the name dispute Matthew Nimetz will pay February 23 a visit to Skopje for talks with Macedonian authorities.
NATO Week gets underway in Ukraine
07:04 |
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| Ukrinform
The 10th Annual NATO Week has kicked off at the National Defense Academy of Ukraine, the Defense Ministry press-service has reported.
Tymoshenko has decided not to recognize Yanukovych's victory
07:05 |
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| Ukrinform
Incumbent Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has decided not to recognize Regions Party leader Viktor Yanukovych's victory in the run-off presidential election.
Inzko: End the economic crisis and reopen the door to Europe
07:08 |
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| EMportal
The High Representative and EU Special Representative, Valentin Inzko, has again called on the authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina to end the economic crisis and reopen the door to Europe.
Greece: Wednesday Deterioration of weather
07:14 |
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| ANA
Meteorological Service has forecast deterioration of weather as of Wednesday and for the next 48 hours with heavy rainfall and gale force winds mainly in high seas
Greece: ADEDY and PAME are staging a 24-hour strike in protest
07:15 |
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| ANA
Participating in the strike are air traffic controllers, and Hellenic Railways employees with work stoppages as well as grammar, high school and university teachers. Hospitals will function with skeleton staff.
Greece: Promachonas closed for trucks
07:18 |
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| ANA
Serres prefecture farmers on Tuesday remained at their roadblocks on the road access to the Promachonas border post preventing trucks from passing through the border into Bulgaria.
Greek Finmin unveils new tax rates
07:22 |
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| ANA
All Greek tax-payers will have a tax-free allowance of 12,000 euros annually under the new income tax scale unveiled on Tuesday by Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou.
Swine flu death toll reaches 26 in FYRMacedonia
07:26 |
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| MIA
The Pandemic Flu Committee at today's working meeting, which focused on reviewing the current situation involving the new flu, has decided to urge the population once again to be vaccinated against the influenza, because a surge of swine flu patients is expected in March.
Romania: Special pensions to be recalculated five months since new law takes force
07:28 |
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| Agerpres
The special pensions will be recalculated in five months since the future pensions law takes force, Prime Minister Emil Boc announced on Tuesday.
Dodik denies law on referendum first step to secession
07:36 |
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| Beta
Republika Srpska (RS) Premier Milorad Dodik on Feb. 9 said the adoption of a law on referendum is not the first step to RS secession, noting that the matter "is not on the incumbent cabinet's agenda."
D&B keep unfavourable rating for BH
11:49 |
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| limun.hr, Glas Srpske
Dun & Bradstreet kept the DB6a rating for BH in its February report, which means BH remains a country of high level of risk in doing business.
Croatia's retail to drop 3% in 2010
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11:52 |
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| SEEbiz
Retail sales will continue downward this year with average drop forecasted at 3%, largely due to drop of capital investments, Societe Generale- Splitska Banka report reads.
Italy the first in the list of foreign investors in Montenegro
11:52 |
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| limun.hr, CDM
After the signed agreement on strategic partnership of the Republic of Italy and Montenegro and a contract on installing a high voltage energy cable from Peskara to Tivat, worth EUR 720m, Italy is now the first foreign investor in Montenegro.
Slovenia: Eight bids for Mercator
11:53 |
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| limun.hr, www.finance.si
Eight unbinding bids for the purchase of a 36 percent stake of Mercator were submitted before the expiration of the deadline, announced Uros Marter from company Arkas which is the mediator in the sale.
Croatia: Tourism minister holds talks with tourism workers' union
11:54 |
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| Hina
Union representatives described the situation in the tourism sector as rather bad, noting that many employees did not know what their salaries would be like in the spring, or if they would have a job at all.
Albanian government, opposition leaders to meet at Topi's office
11:56 |
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| SEtimes.com
President Bamir Topi will host a meeting between Prime Minister Sali Berisha and opposition leader Edi Rama on Saturday (February 13th)
€68 million loan to build energy efficient retail centre in Split
12:42 |
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| EMportal
To date the EBRD has invested over €2.2 billion in the Croatian economy through more than 100 projects in the corporate, financial, infrastructure and energy sectors. The EBRD funds have attracted additional investments worth €3 billion from other sources.