European Union

BRUSSELS - Serbia is on a good way to get a government which would conduct reform policy actively, outgoing Serbian Finance Minister Lazar Krstic stated in Brussels on a panel concerning European integration.

The police has banned public gatherings in central Athens from 6 a.m. until 11 p.m. on Tuesday and Wednesday, when the European Union’s finance ministers will be in the Greek capital for an informal Eurogroup and then an ECOFIN meeting.

Greece saw the biggest rise in the European Union between 2011 and 2012 in terms of the proportion of its population that is at risk of poverty, according to the European Commission's latest Employment and Social Situation Quarterly Review, which was published on Monday.

Euro area annual inflation reached its lowest level since 2009 in March 2014, according to an estimate from Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union.

The latest data reveals a 0.5% inflation in March 2014, down by 0.7% in February, which is the lowest annual rate of inflation since November 2009.

Four Bulgarian parties would win seats in the European Parliament if the elections were now, according to the latest survey of Sova Harris agency.

The ruling Socialist Party (BSP) increases its lead over the main opposition center-right GERB Party. The Socialists would receive 21.9% in the Euro-vote, while GERB would come second with 20.6%, the survey shows.

By Corina Ruhe, Nikos Chrysoloras & Rebecca Christie

Euro area finance chiefs will decide tomorrow on the amount and pace of Greece’s next aid payments, Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem said.

By Anchalee Worrachate

Greek and Portuguese government bonds beat their euro-region peers this quarter as the countries made progress toward returning to international credit markets.

Regional countries to seek EU observer status

 International investors continue to underestimate political risk, but this has not diminished at all

By Dimitris Kontogiannis

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.