March, 2013

• 20 March

  Serbia Leaders to Attend UN Session on Kosovo

  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 …

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• 20 March

  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 …

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• 20 March

  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 …

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• 20 March

  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. …

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• 19 March

  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

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• 19 March

  Turkish EU Minister says his country’s integration would boost EU’s growth

  Turkey’s membership will contribute to EU growth, Turkish EU Minister Egemen Bagis said on Tuesday during a conference in Ankara on an EU project for capacity building in governorates. Bagis said Turkey would make the EU cake bigger, rather than reducing in size the slices of other EU member countries.

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• 19 March

  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

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• 19 March

  France condemns Syrian air raid of Lebanon

  France on Monday condemned a Syrian air raid into Lebanon, saying President Bashar al-Assad’s forces had seriously violated the sovereignty of neighboring Lebanon. “The air raid carried out by the armed forces of the Syrian regime in

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• 19 March

  Turkish, Azerbaijani and Georgian foreign ministers will meet in Batumi on March 28

  The next trilateral meeting of Azerbaijani, Turkish and Georgian Foreign Ministers Elmar Mammadyarov, Ahmet Davutoglu and Maya Panjikidze will be held in Batumi on March 28, Mammadyarov said at a briefing on Tuesday.

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• 19 March

  Turkish Prime Minister is optimistic on solving conflict with Kurdish rebels peacefully

  Turkey’s prime minister says he hopes this week’s Kurdish spring festival will herald the start of a peaceful resolution of the nearly 30-year-old conflict with Kurdish rebels. Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke Tuesday, ahead of Thursday’s spring festivities

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