News archive of September 2014

The need for a national consensus on priorities and a government formula which is a natural function of this consensus - these are two of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) political goals.

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The Labor Ministry has not granted permission for the prosecution of inspectors who gave a perfect score to the Soma mine facility two months before 301 of its workers were killed in a deadly accident.

BELGRADE - Serbian foreign trade increased by 6.9 percent in the first eight months of 2014 compared to the same period last year and reached USD 23.68 billion, the deficit dropped by 2.9 percent, and the export-import ratio rose to 72.7 percent.

BELGRADE - Serbian industrial output dropped by 4.3 percent in the period between January and August 2014 compared to the same period last year, the Serbian statistical office said on Tuesday,

The industrial output in August was 13.1 percent lower than in August 2013 and 12.8 percent lower than last year's average.

Bulgaria has granted arms and ammunition worth about BGN 6 M to Iraq as part of an international effort to back the Iraqi government in its fight against Islamic State militants.

The grant comprising about 1,800 firearms and some 6 million rounds of ammunition has already been received by Iraq, the Defence Ministry in Sofia said in a statement.

Lot 2 of the Struma motorway will most probably be completed by the autumn of 2015, according to Bulgaria's caretaker Regional Development Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva.

Zaharieva inspected Tuesday the 37.5km motorway section from Dupnitsa to Blagoevgrad.

Thieves have stolen a painting by French master Edgar Degas valued at 6 million euros ($7.6 million) from the home of a 70-year-old Greek Cypriot, Cyprus police said on Tuesday.

The painting, titled "Ballerina adjusting her slipper," was taken on Monday from the home in the island's second city Limassol and was not insured, a police spokeswoman told AFP.

The number of war crimes and victims far outweigh the amount of prosecutions in Serbia over the past decade, while top officials are still evading justice, a new report said.

Eurozone inflation slowed further in September on falling prices of unprocessed food and energy, a first estimate showed on Tuesday, sending the euro lower on expectations of further European Central Bank policy easing.

BELGRADE - The memorandum on the promotion of cooperation between Serbia and the German federal state of Baden-Wuerttemberg was signed in Belgrade on Tuesday, after a two-days' work of the Joint Commission focusing on cooperation opportunities in tourism, IT industry, energy, water management, environmental protection, police work and education.