Economic and Financial Affairs Council

Romania is ready to work at a sustained pace during the negotiations on the future European budget for 2021-2027, so that an agreement to be reached by the end of this year, Minister of Finance, Eugen Teodorovici, said in a release sent to AGERPRES on Saturday.

These countries promised to meet international and European standards to block tax evasion until 2019.

In a set of measures passed by the Economic and Financial Affairs Council, made up of the economy and finance ministers of all EU states, it's made clear that Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro have accepted the European Commission's request.

By Eurogroup Head J. Dijsselbloem

Good evening and welcome to the Eurogroup press conference.

The European Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin) has approved a 7.16 bln-Euro bridge loan to Greece, which will allow the crisis battered country to cover its overdue debt obligations over the next 3 months to the IMF, the Bank of Greece and the ECB.

The nine EU countries which were supposed to make extra contributions to the EU budget by December 1, 2014, were granted a postponement by September 1, 2015 on Friday.

Friday's decision of the finance and economy ministers of the 28 EU Member States stipulated an opportunity for making the payments in installments.

BELGRADE - Head of the European Integration Section of EU's Delegation to Serbia Freek Janmaat said that Brussels supports the set of measures presented by Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, as part of the broad structural reforms which are to follow.

BELGRADE – Serbia may receive European Commission’s (EC) recommendations concerning economic reforms that need be pushed through in Serbia as early as in May, Freek Janmaat, head of the EU Delegation to Serbia’s European Integration Department, has said.