http://www.emg.rs/en/news/index.html EMG - Product of Ekonomist Media Group en Copyright 1999 - 2012, EMG.rs rss@emg.rs (RSS Admin) Sat, 19 May 2012 20:24:09 +0000 Sat, 19 May 2012 20:24:09 +0000 Business and Economy http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.emg.rs/img/emportal-rss.png http://www.emg.rs/en/news/index.html 144 38 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/world/179700.html Emerging Europe is continuing to be buffeted by the crisis in the eurozone despite improved economic fundamentals in much of the region. As a result, the EBRD is still predicting a substantial slowdown in growth in transition economies in 2012. 179700[at]emg.rs News - WorldNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:39:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/179706.html Standard & Poor's (S&P) Ratings Services Thursday affirmed its 'BB/B' long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on the Republic of Macedonia. 179706[at]emg.rs News - RegionNews Sat, 19 May 2012 08:01:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/world/179704.html The aim of this process is to keep the accession process of Turkey alive and put it properly back on track after a period of stagnation. 179704[at]emg.rs News - WorldNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:52:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179699.html At the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Annual Meeting on Friday, the Serbian delegation requested from this financial institution not to cut back on the financing of projects due to the global economic crisis, Serbian Governor at the EBRD Verica Kalanovic stated for Tanjug. 179699[at]emg.rs News - SerbiaNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:28:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/179705.html Greek bondholders staged a protest outside the Finance Ministry in central Athens on Friday, May 18. They were protesting their inclusion in a debt swap that wiped out savings they had invested in Greek government bonds. 179705[at]emg.rs News - RegionNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:54:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179698.html The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) released on Friday the forecast according to which Serbia should record economic growth worth 0.1 percent in 2012, while the growth rate would add up to 2.6 percent in 2013. 179698[at]emg.rs News - SerbiaNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:26:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/179703.html The downgrade of Greece's sovereign ratings reflects the heightened risk that Greece may not be able to sustain its membership of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). 179703[at]emg.rs News - RegionNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:51:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179697.html The Serbian Ministry of Agriculture and Trade and the International Finance Corporation (IFC) Wednesday signed an agreement expected to reduce trade logistics constraints and harmonize border clearance procedures in the Western Balkans. 179697[at]emg.rs News - SerbiaNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:25:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/179702.html During a meeting in San Jose at NASA and with representatives of leading American technological firms like Google, Hewlett Packard and Cisco, the President suggested partnership on the part of Bulgaria"s government and the state in the working out of a concept and the fulfillment of the project Sofia Tech Park. 179702[at]emg.rs News - RegionNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:47:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179696.html A total of 250,000 people visited 79th International Agricultural Fair in Novi Sad, Director of the trade fair Goran Vasic said on Friday. The 80th International Agricultural Fair will be held from May 18-24, 2013, with Croatia as the partner country. 179696[at]emg.rs News - SerbiaNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:43:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/179701.html Bulgaria, Qatar and Turkey are ready to set up a joint project company for the construction of an express highway connecting Svilengrad with Rousse. 179701[at]emg.rs News - RegionNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:45:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179695.html Former Serbian deputy prime minister Bozidar Djelic, who was one of the candidates for the new president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), congratulated Suma Chakrabarti late on Friday on his appointment as the EBRD director. 179695[at]emg.rs News - SerbiaNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:33:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179694.html The number of Serbian citizens seeking asylum in Germany has more than halved in April, the German Interior Ministry has stated. 179694[at]emg.rs News - SerbiaNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:20:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179693.html As many as three quarters of reporters in Serbia believe that the country suffers from certain problems in connection to the freedom of the media, shows the research entitled 'Media freedoms in Serbia in a European mirror.' 179693[at]emg.rs News - SerbiaNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:19:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179692.html Assistant Minister Ilija Pilipovic underlined that the defence industry is currently making an investment worth €25 million. 179692[at]emg.rs News - SerbiaNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:15:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179691.html A protest was held in Kosovska Mitrovica on Friday with demands for an immediate release of Kosovo Serb Jovica Miljkovic. 179691[at]emg.rs News - SerbiaNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:10:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179690.html Serbian State Secretary for Kosovo-Metohija Oliver Ivanovic said on Friday that the statement of Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha, who said that Albanians are more than ever interested in working on national reunification, constitutes a clear message that the idea of a 'greater Albania' has not been extinguished. 179690[at]emg.rs News - SerbiaNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:08:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179689.html Chief of Serbian Armed Forces (VS) General Staff Ljubisa Dikovic said Kosovo's unilaterally declared independence was the greatest security challenge for Serbia, warning that a reduction in KFOR troops under current circumstances would not be good. 179689[at]emg.rs News - SerbiaNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:06:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179688.html Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said on Friday that the attack on the police checkpoint in Dobrosin near Bujanovac (southern Serbia) is a shot at the common life, and called for the reaction of the international community in Kosovo-Metohija. 179688[at]emg.rs News - SerbiaNews Sat, 19 May 2012 07:03:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/179670.html The Greek people are facing historic elections that will decide their future and must be fully aware of the consequences that their decisions will have, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Wednesday. 179670[at]emg.rs News - RegionNews Fri, 18 May 2012 06:20:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/179669.html European Parliament president Martin Schulz, who has expressed himself in favour of Greece's stay in the eurozone, will be making a visit to Athens on Friday May 18. 179669[at]emg.rs News - RegionNews Fri, 18 May 2012 06:18:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/179667.html The International Monetary Fund will not return to Greece to review its loan program before Athens holds fresh elections on June 17, an IMF official said on Thursday. 179667[at]emg.rs News - RegionNews Fri, 18 May 2012 06:13:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/179666.html Greece's party leaders and President Karolos Papoulias, at one of their meetings on setting up new government, agreed that Athens must impose veto on Macedonia's accession to NATO at Chicago Summit. 179666[at]emg.rs News - RegionNews Fri, 18 May 2012 06:11:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/179664.html Prime Minister Niksic thanked for the contribution and assistance Islamic Development Bank and its member in BiH Bosna Bank International (BBI) in restoration and development of economy of our country, stressing the need for stronger development of principles of the Islamic banking in BiH financial sector. 179664[at]emg.rs News - RegionNews Fri, 18 May 2012 06:05:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/179663.html BiH has two sectors with great potential: energy and agriculture and for these sectors to be exploited economic and political reforms are necessary, the US Ambassador to BiH Patrick Moon stated at Sarajevo Business Forum yesterday. 179663[at]emg.rs News - RegionNews Fri, 18 May 2012 06:03:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/179662.html Qatar Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Hamad bi Jassim Al-Tani is on a two-day visit to Bulgaria. He signed in Sofia Framework Agreement for Bilateral Investments with PM Boyko Borissov. 179662[at]emg.rs News - RegionNews Fri, 18 May 2012 05:59:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/region/179641.html The prosecution's opening argument which opened the start of General Ratko Mladic trial at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia, ended on May 17. The trial chamber has postponed the evidence presentation process, which was initially scheduled for May 29, until further notice. 179641[at]emg.rs News - RegionNews Fri, 18 May 2012 04:50:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179652.html Dragan Srejovic, CEO of Zastava vozila, and the director of the Italian automotive cluster Iam (Innovazione Automotive e Metalmeccanica) signed Thursday in Kragujevac a letter of intent and announced a contract would be inked next month. 179652[at]emg.rs News - SerbiaNews Fri, 18 May 2012 05:09:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179651.html There is ample room for enhancement of economic cooperation and increase of commercial exchange between Serbia and Azerbaijan because the current level does not meet the two countries' needs and possibilities, Vice President of the Serbian Chamber of Commerce (PKS) Vidosava Dzagic stated in Baku. 179651[at]emg.rs News - SerbiaNews Fri, 18 May 2012 05:08:00 +0000 http://www.emg.rs/en/news/serbia/179650.html The Serbian dinar is down by 30 para or 0.3 percent Thursday, with the official middle exchange rate set at RSD 112.8731 for one euro, the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) has said in a release. 179650[at]emg.rs News - SerbiaNews Fri, 18 May 2012 05:06:00 +0000