News archive of March 2023

Attica Group reported unified sales of 530.24 million euros in 2022, a 52% revenue increase from €347.92 million in 2021, it said on Thursday.

Consolidated EBITDA amounted to €57.75 million in 2022, or a 38% rise from €41.96 million in 2021.

Net income after taxes was €17.05 million compared to net losses of €13.19 million for fiscal year 2021.

The Serbian Army will join the "Platinum Wolf" military exercise with members of the US Army and Western partners this year, which will end the moratorium on participation in bilateral and multilateral exercises with all foreign partners introduced after the start of the war in Ukraine, Demostat, a Serbian research centre, has reported.

By treating heated tobacco products the same as regular cigarettes, the Health Ministry is attempting to make them "unattractive."

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with North Macedonian PM Dimitar Kovacevski in Belgrade on Friday.

"We agreed that the relations between the Republic of Serbia and the Republic of North Macedonia are the best in modern history. We will continue to work together for the well-being of our peoples," Vucic wrote in a post on his buducnostsrbijeav Instagram profile.

The alleged jihadists detained in Belgium, including the Bulgarian Sergey Radkov, were preparing the murder of the mayor of Antwerp and the chairman of one of the largest parties in the country, the New Flemish Alliance, Bart de Wever.

The gross external debt at the end of January 2023 amounted to nearly 45.1 billion euros (49.9 percent of the estimated Gross Domestic Product - GDP), reports the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB).

This is almost EUR 3.963 billion (9.6 percent) more than at the end of January 2022 (over EUR 41.120 billion, 48.6 percent of GDP).

BELGRADE - The Serbian dinar's official median exchange rate against the euro is 117.2933 dinars for one euro on Friday, which is a slight change from Thursday, the National Bank of Serbia said.

The dinar is steady against the euro m-o-m and up by 0.4 pct y-o-y.

In the wake of regional and global political uncertainties, fake news in Kosovo has gone to another level, a BIRN-organised conference on the eve of International Fact-Checking Day, April 2, concluded on Thursday.

While marking the marking International Day of Zero Waste, observed for the first time on March 30, first lady Emine Erdoğan has expressed that if thousands of children are still losing their lives in different parts of the world due to drought caused by climate change, there is not a minute to be lost to stop this situation.

Salvini, who is also the transport minister, said this after a French court refused to extradite 10 former members of the Red Brigade terrorist group to Italy, who, despite being sentenced by Italian courts to varying degrees of punishment, including life imprisonment, for blood crimes, are sheltered in France, reports Euractiv.