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Romania's vice-champion in women's handball, CS Minaur Baia Mare, has requested a wildcard for the next season of the Champions League, according to the club's official website. Romania could thus have two teams in the strongest European interclub competition, considering that CSM Bucharest, the national champion, is one of the teams that will play in the League groups.

Gažić noted that the considerable interest from investors despite worrying trends on the capital markets made the event satisfying.

SEE Link, a stock trading regional platform of Southeastern Europe (SEE) backed by the EBRD, has started to calculate its first two blue-chip equity indices.

The indices, SEE LinX and SEE LinX EWI, aim to enhance the visibility of regional markets, according to see-link.net.

The Croatian government on Wednesday increased its capital in the partly state-owned food company Podravka by 5.6 million euro.

In this way, Podravka will be able to release an additional 141,000 new shares on the market, helping it to raise the capital it needs to complete the full acquisition of the Slovenian food company Zito, after buying 51.5 per cent of its shares in April.