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AGERPRES special correspondent, Florentina Peia, reports: President Klaus Iohannis on Thursday was received by his German counterpart, Joachim Gauck, at the Presidential Palace in Berlin.

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German FinMin Wolfgang Schaeuble on Wednesday warned that “not one cent will be given in advance,” referring to the Greek program, while he underlined that the condition for depositing the pre-arranged funds will be adherence to terms.

“There are no new terms in the program. The people were given the wrong idea,” Schaeuble said in an interview with SWR radio station.

BELGRADE - Director of the Office for Human and Minority Rights Suzana Paunovic and Chair of the Parliamentary Committee on Human and Minority Rights and Gender Equality Meho Omerovic talked on Thursday with a delegation of the German Bundestag about the human and minority rights situation in Serbia, with a special emphasis on the position and problems of the Roma national minority.

BELGRADE - Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic conferred with the delegation of the German Bundestag Committee on Economic Cooperation and Development and they agreed that Serbia is an important factor of regional stability and economic development.

Vucic informed the Bundestag MPs about the reform measures the Serbian government is implementing.

BELGRADE - Serbian minister without portfolio in charge of European integration Jadranka Joksimovic will be on a visit to Berlin as of Monday, and meet with members of the German Bundestag and the European Parliament Rapporteur on Serbia David McAllister.

Lawmakers at the German Parliament, the Bundestag, have backed the establishment of a minimum wage level in the country.

A fixed national threshold of EUR 8.50 per hour is due to be fully in force from 2017, with partial introduction as early as January 1, 2015, German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reported.

German Parliament adopted Friday legal changes curtailing subsidies allocated to renewable energy producers.

Bundestag members took the move after an unprecedented threefold increase of state aid for the sector in just four years.

BERLIN - The Serbian government, headed by Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic, has Berlin's full political support, Serbia's chief EU negotiator Tanja Miscevic has said.

BERLIN/BELGRADE - Serbia's First Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met in Germany Thursday with the country's former chancellor Helmut Kohl to discuss Serbia's European integration and economic recovery, and Kohl said he appreciates Serbia's role in maintaining the political stability of the region.