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BELGRADE - Narcisa Knezevic Sijan, acting director of the Museum of African Art in Belgrade, is the winner of this year's Iroko lifetime achievement award.

She received the prestigious award at a ceremony held on November 15 in Budapest.

Bulgaria becomes unattractive for foreign investment, shows a report of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB), quoted by the Sega daily.

According to the data in the first three quarter of this year the country attracted only EUR 1.105 B in foreign investments. This is by 4.8% lower than in the same period of 2013, which was a record low year.

Bulgaria is losing an estimated BGN 500 M (EUR 250 M) a year from illegal trading in archaeological artifacts due to inconsistent legislation, a local NGO announced on Monday.

There may be only 12 months left on their three-year contract with the European Tour but organizers of the Turkish Airlines Open say they are committed to running the November event until at least 2024.

As many as 378,811 Romanian voters have cast their ballots on Sunday in the second round of the presidential elections, according to the figures received by the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) from the 294 polling stations set up abroad by 8 a.m. on Monday.

As many as 114,607 Romanian voters living abroad turned out to the ballot by 1 p.m. on Sunday in the second round of voting for President of Romania, according to figures received by the Central Electoral Bureau from 263 polling stations out of a total 294 set up abroad.

BELGRADE - The Serbian Association of Managers (SAM) and the Senate of economy of Serbia signed in Belgrade the Memorandum on cooperation with a view to setting up close ties between Serbian, Austrian and German businessmen, improvement of competitiveness and encouragement of investments and exports.

A recent study of ECAS shows that EU migrants in Austria, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom contribute more than they benefit from their host countries.

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Small and medium-sized companies in Greece have the highest need for bank funding in the eurozone, but find it hard to get, a survey by the European Central Bank and the European Commission showed on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - Serbia marks the World War I Armistice Day as its national holiday on Tuesday. The day commemorates Germany's capitulation that led to the cessation of WWI hostilities. The capitulation was signed in a railway carriage in Compiegne, France, on November 11, 1918 at 11:00 a.m.