BUCHAREST, Romania Romania will curb spending by 5.5 billion lei ($1.9 billion) this year, in part through cuts in public pay, to meet its new budget deficit goal agreed with the IMF, Finance Minister Gheorghe Pogea said on Tuesday. Although the International Monetary Fund has allowed Bucharest to raise the …

A working group will be formed to work out ways to lift ailing steelmaker Kremikovtzi out of the doldrums while protecting to the utmost the interests of the state, workers and bondholders, a government media statement said. The announcement came after Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov met representatives of bondholders …

TIRANA Albanian villagers prevented Council of Europe (CoE) officials from conducting an investigation into the trafficking of human organs, Albanian media reported. Former Hague chief prosecutor Carla Del Ponte mentioned in her book published last year that the home of the Katuci family and the village of Rripe in north …