The opposition Monday blamed Macedonia’s Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski for misusing his office after he announced the start of several infrastructure projects amid the current presidential and local election campaign. The opposition Social Democrats accused the conservative VMRO DPMNE party prime minister for “misuse of budget money for party promotion” …

The Albanian government annulled €60 million worth of debts and unpaid bills of the state-owned electricity distribution company, OSSH, on Friday. The decision has been slammed by the opposition as “stupid” and corrupt, because it will decrease by more then 50 per cent the real price of OSSH, which is …

The average net salary in Romania rose 12.9 percent in the year to January, but declined slightly when compared to the month before, the National Statistics Board reported on Monday. January’s average salary was Lei 1,355 down by 0.9 percent from December, 2008.