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Croatian law on minorities "not implemented"

BELGRADE -- Croatia's constitutional law on minority rights remains a "dead letter" even though it was adopted 12 years ago.

This is according to Miodrag Linta, president of the Coalition of Refugee Associations in Serbia, and a deputy in the Serbian National Assembly on the ruling SNS party ticket.

Bulgaria's largest telecommunications company Vivacom suffered a major outage on Tuesday, leaving its subscribers without access to their mobile phones and the Internet.

Representatives of Vivacom have announced for NOVA TV that such a problem existed and crews were working on fixing it.

As parliament started talking about the draft budget on Monday, Pavle Petrovic from the Serbian Fiscal Council, an independent state body charged with assessing monetary policy, said it envisages that the number of people working in publicly-owned companies and the state administration will be reduced by five per cent, or around 27,000 people.

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BELGRADE - Forensic accounting implies comprehensive investigation of criminal activities and integration of knowledge in accounting, auditing and investigation techniques, and deals with monitoring the business reality pertaining to events and environments, said the participants of the first international conference on fighting business fraud and corruption on Thursday.

Serbia "can be proud of results achieved in 2014"

BELGRADE -- Serbia can be proud of the results it has achieved in 2014, the head of the EU Delegation to Serbia, Michael Davenport, said on Wednesday.

He added that " intensive preparations are under way" to open the first EU membership negotiation chapters "in the coming months."

BELGRADE - Serbia can be proud of the results it has achieved in 2014 and intensive preparations are under way to open the first negotiation chapters in the coming months, the head of the EU Delegation to Serbia, Michael Davenport, said on Wednesday.

In 2015 the Bulgarian state would cost each Bulgarian citizen BGN 4579, plus a debt of BGN 3418, shows a calculation of the Institute for Market Economy, based on the draft state budget.

Largest share of the expenses is held by pensions and social payments - BGN 1577, followed by transport, communications and agriculture - BGN 649 and health care - BGN 542.

BELGRADE - The governance of public finances in Serbian local self-government authorities is inefficient, State Audit Institution (DRI) President Radoslav Sretenovic said on Tuesday.

Romania's President-elect, Klaus Iohannis on Friday has had a meeting with the President of the Republic of Moldova, Nicolae Timofti, on his first visit abroad after the November 16 presidential runoff.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Kori Udovicki has met with a delegation from Germany, led by Christiane Bogemann-Hagedorn of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, to discuss ways to improve cooperation between the two countries.