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International technology giant IBM is moving ahead with the creation of a new corporate data analysis center in Greece, aimed at providing solutions and strengthening the competitiveness of companies active in the country as well as the broader region.

"Nicefoods Restaurants" says it will appeal against a judgment of the Novi Sad Court, which fined it 100,000 dinars (about 860 euro) for not allowing Roma children to enter McDonald's in the city of Novi Sad in 2012.

"Nicefoods Restaurants respect the ruling... but we will use our right and appeal the decision," the company said in a statement.

The Finance Ministry’s General Secretariat for Information Systems (GSIS) is to set up an electronic system to monitor telephone calls made from government offices and the broader public sector after recent research suggested that the state’s phone bill costs Greek taxpayers some 285 million euros a year.