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Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday that the process of privatization of the steelworks in Smederevo was nearing completion.

Its outcome depends on the European Union giving its consent to carry on with it, he said.

The Greek government’s economic team presented proposals for tax law reforms to representatives of Greece’s four creditors (EC, ECB, ESM, IMF) in Athens on Tuesday. The proposal presented included suggested tax brackets and tax rates with the highest rate at 50% and recommendations for an even higher rate.

Economists have attacked the Albanian government's plan to allow a private firm to manage data on business VAT payments as lacking in transparency, unnecessary and potentially corrupt.

A private company will be invited to invest in a 10-million-euro technological platform that will be attached to the tax system to track every business transaction in real time.

Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu will meet foreign investors in London on Jan. 17-19 in a series of meetings hosted by global investment bank Merrill Lynch. 

Davuto?lu will be accompanied by Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet ?im?ek, several ministers, and a number of top economy officials, with sources telling Reuters that he plans to "share details of the government's reform agenda." 

TV anchorwoman Elli Stai, aged 61, became one of the latest Greek celebrity to strip off for HIV for the purposes of lifestyle magazine Down Town’s naked issue. Her flawless figure made the magazine’s cover and she states that it was her first naked photoshoot hence she felt trepidation, however it was the worthy cause that made her say “yes” to it.

Bulgaria's budget deficit for 2015 will be lower than planned, Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov has said, citing preliminary estimates.

It is true that Kendall Jenner and Gigi Hadid are the rising stars of the fashion industry.

With countless high fashion campaigns, strong social media presence, beauty endorsements and runway history as evidence, the two models made everyone talking about them.

Criminal police investigations directorate (UKP) inspectors were on Friday in the premises of the state-owned power company EPS.

They were investigating suspected "public procurement process abuses," B92 has been able to confirm.

The offers of six companies for buying 58 percent of shares of state-owned telecommunications company Telekom Srbija have been opened at the government.

The offers are considered by the privatization consultant French company Lazard, and the government will decide on the best offer not only based on the price, but also the investment plan and social program.

The 2016 draft budget is a “landmark” for the Greek economy, Alternate Finance Minister Giorgos Chouliarakis said during his address at the parliament’s Economics Committee.

“It’s the first of the four that will follow from 2016 until 2019 and will mark the government’s medium-term, fiscal policy,” he said.