News archive of March 2014

By Katerina Sokou

The World Bank is working toward aiding low income groups in Greece by offering the government its know-how following the latter’s request for help, a senior official at the international financial institution has told Kathimerini.

By Nikos Roussanoglou

By Thanos Tsiros

Employers’ and employees’ social security contributions may be going down by 3.9 percentage points as of July 2014, but Greece remains among the countries with the highest rates, according to figures from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

 International investors continue to underestimate political risk, but this has not diminished at all

By Dimitris Kontogiannis

By George Georgakopoulos

BELGRADE - Governor of the National Bank of Serbia (NBS) Jorgovanka Tabakovic said that the NBS has enough FX reserves to defend the national currency and it bought euros (EUR 20 million) just before the weekend for the first time this year, after only selling foreign currency for the last three months.

BRUSSELS – Those accused of organ harvesting and trafficking crimes that are the subject of a report by former Council of Europe rapporteur Dick Marty will be tried before a special court in The Hague and not in Pristina as sought by the Kosovo government, Tanjug has learned from diplomatic sources in Brussels.

BELGRADE - Bojan Kostres, member of the Serbian parliament's permanent delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (PABSEC), has been denied entry to the Russian Federation until 2017, according to Belgrade-based daily Politika reports.

The "Environment" operational program may be conclusively suspended unless the European Commission restores payments to Bulgaria by end-May, according to center-right party GERB.

BELGRADE - The Coalition of Refugee Associations in the Republic of Serbia said in a release Sunday that it supports the request made by Serbia's agent at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Sasa Obradovic to declare Operation Storm, a 1995 military offensive carried out by the Croatian armed forces, a genocide against the Serbian people.