Austria

Greece remained at the top of the eurozone's latest unemployment charts, published by the EU's statistical agency Eurostat on Tuesday.

VIENNA - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic will travel to Vienna on Wednesday for the first time since taking office and confer with Austria's top officials.

The visit to Austria was due to take place on May 18-19, but the prime minister cancelled it because of catastrophic floods that hit Serbia.

Austria to help Serbia and Bosnia with EUR 1mn

VIENNA -- Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has announced that the Austrian government has decided to give Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina EUR 500,000 each.

The money will be used to repair the damage caused by the recent severe floods.

BELGRADE - Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has announced that the Austrian government has decided to give Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) EUR 500,000 each for repairing the damage caused by the recent severe flash floods.

Austria's Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz assesses positively Bulgaria's progress for Schengen area accession.

Kurz voiced his support for Bulgaria's entrance into Schengen during a meeting with his counterpart Kristian Vigenin in Vienna, Standartnews reported.

EU Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger has tied the South Stream gas pipeline to the political behavior of Russia in the conflict in Ukraine.

From Financial Times

By Christian Oliver in Brussels and Jack Farchy in Moscow

Gazprom has accused the EU of applying double standards to block its landmark gas pipeline into Europe in a case that looks increasingly likely to spiral into an acrimonious legal showdown.

By Leonid Bershidsky

Europe has a new source of economic growth. In the next few months all European Union countries that do not already include drugs, prostitution, and other illegal and gray-market businesses in their gross domestic product calculations will have to do so.

BELGRADE, May 30 (Tanjug) - USD 1 billion will be invested in the expansion and modernization of Belgrade's Nikola Tesla Airport, Belgrade-based daily Vecernje Novosti reports in its Friday edition.

In April the Bulgarians' travels increased moderately by 4.6%, compared to April 2013, shows the data of the National Statistics Institute (NSI).

For comparison, in the entire Q1 2014, they increased by 25%, year-on-year.