Prime Minister Ivica Dacic and Foreign Minister Ivan Mrkic are to attend the March 22 Security Council session on the latest report of UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Kosovo.The Security Council session was scheduled for February 22 but was postponed by a month in order to allow the EU-mediated …
Read More »Croatia Labour Costs Quarter of EU Average
Workers in Croatia earn only a quarter of the average hourly wage in the European Union, according to the country’s statistics bureau.The gross hourly rate in Croatia is just 6 euro, four times less than the EU average, five times less than the rate in Germany and Austria and half …
Read More »Serbia Tops Balkans For Illicit Financial Flows
The organisation Global Financial Integrity has ranked Serbia worst of all Balkan countries when it comes to illegal financial flows.About 5 billion dollars worth of money has “disappeared” every year in Serbia from 2001 to 2010 through illegal financial flows, the research and advocacy organisation Global Financial Integrity says. It …
Read More »Cyprus Bank Levy Worries Romanian Savers
Thousands of Romanians are to be affected by the controversial plan to tax savings held in Cypriot banks.Some 40,000 Romanians who live and work in Cyprus could be hit by the controversial plan to tax bank deposits in order to fund a bank bailout. “All Romanians here will be affected. …
Read More »Serbia did its best to reach a compromise in the dialogue with Kosovo, says Serbian President Adviser
Serbia did its best to reach a compromise in the dialogue with Kosovo, said Marko Djuric, adviser of Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic. According to Djuric, the success in the dialogue
Read More »Stefan Fuele says EU integration date for Serbia depends on Pristina dialogue
European Commissioner for Enlargement Stefan Fule paid a visit to Belgrade on Monday. He said that: “Setting the date for the start of the EU accession talks for Serbia depends on the realisation of the
Read More »UN Secretary General will meet with Kovoso and Serbia’s prime ministers
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to meet with the prime ministers of Kosovo and Serbia – Hashim Thaci and Ivica Dacic. The meeting will be held in New York in the frames of the debates on Kosovo during the UN Security Council meeting. The UN Security Council will debate …
Read More »Serbian Preseidnt meets US vice president in Rome
Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic has said that “the information arriving in Washington did not correspond to the situation in the Belgrade-Pristina dialogue”. The progress made in the dialogue was not being assessed correctly, he said after his meeting in Rome late on Monday with U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden.
Read More »Stefan Fuele is optimistic on Kosovo-EU deal
Enlargement Commissioner Fuele told Kosovo leaders to up the fight against corruption in order to boost its chances of opening a Stabilisation and Association Agreement with Brussels. “Kosovo has to show even more courage. More efforts
Read More »EU says Serbia’s justice reform is crucial
European Union officials told the Serbian government that reform of the justice system was crucial if Belgrade is to reach the rule-of-law standards required for membership. Speaking to Serbian lawmakers who were visiting Brussels on Tuesday in the hope of boosting the country’s
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