:News Archive
18. May 2009.
62nd World Health Assembly opens next week
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| EMportal, Washington File
The 62nd session of the World Health Assembly is scheduled to take place in Geneva during 18-22 May 2009. Τhe Health Assembly will discuss pandemic influenza preparedness: sharing of influenza viruses and access to vaccines and other benefits; implementation of the International
Vujanovic on official visit to Serbia beginning May 18
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| Beta
Montenegrin President Filip Vujanovic will be on an official visit to Belgrade from May 18 to May 20, where he will hold talks with Serbian President Boris Tadic and other Serbian officials.
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden begins tour of region on May 19
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| Beta
U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden will begin his Balkan tour on May 19 with a visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, continue on to Belgrade on May 20 where he will hold discussions with top Serbian officials, and wind up his tour on May 21 with a visit to Kosovo.
Serbian, Bosnian and Croatian businesspeople to meet in Mostar
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| ANSAmed
In Mostar on May 19, businesspeople from Serbia, Croatia and Bosnia will meet to discuss improving the exchange of goods, the strengthening of trade cooperation and market liberalization, the Serbian Chamber of Commerce announced.
EU support for Western Balkans' youth and education
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| EMportal
Czech Presidency and the European Commission have co-organised a Pledging Conference on the perspectives in the provision of scholarships for the students from the Western Balkans.
SASE is in Thomson Reuters’ financial service
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| limun.hr
Real-time information about trading on the SASE have been available through Thomson Reuters since May 12, the stock exchange has announced.
Unicredit Group: SEE export to drop EUR 65bn; FDIs cut in half
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| SEEbiz
FDIs played a crucial role in constructing new production capacities in the region, whose successfulness added to the importance of the domestic market, which is today greater than those in China and Germany.
EBRD: CEE faces at least another year of economic difficulties
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| EMportal, Budapest Times, Nine O'Clock
Speaking at the annual meeting of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, delegates and EBRD officials said there were some signs the worst of the credit crisis may be over but any stabilization would be slow and setbacks possible.
EU helps the modernisation of the transit road in Bitola
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| EMportal
On Wednesday, 6 May 2009, Ambassador Erwan Fouéré, EU Special Representative and Head of EC Delegation and Mr Vladimir Talevski, Mayor of Bitola will officially inaugurate the modernised M5 transit road M5 in Bitola.
Results of OMV’s Annual General Meeting
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| EMportal
OMV’s Annual General Meeting has approved a dividend of EUR 1.00 per share for 2008 as well as all agenda resolutions.
British Airways and UNICEF celebrate fifteen years of partnership
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| EMportal
British Airways and UNICEF UK celebrate 15 years of partnership this month through the ‘Change for Good’ programme, which has raised over £26 million to help children all over the world. The Change for Good programme operates across all British Airways flights,
Albania accepts poll monitor chief after EU pressure
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| Reuters
Prime Minister Sali Berisha had asked the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to remove Audrey Glover, a British poll watcher, claiming she had shown a lack of realism in her organisation’s report about Albania’s 1996 elections.
Pirates break record in May
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| EMportal
In the first 5 months of this year the pirates have made 114 attacks, 29 of which have ended in taking the ship and hostages.
Delta-Zekstra stay as buyers of Boska
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| limun.hr
A Belgrade consortium of Delta and Zekstra will remain the buyer of 58 per cent of government share in Banja Luka department store Boska
Montenegro: Incomes decreasing due to crisis
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| Vijesti, limun.hr
This year was the first when they were considerably affected by the financial crisis, with a decrease in incomes by 5 to 10 percent. Laska said that the market share of Promonte is stable and was not affected by crisis.
South stream gains momentum
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| EMportal, Voice of Russia
South Stream, the biggest project to deliver Russian gas to Europe, is gaining momentum. The Russian gas giant GAZPROM concluded more agreements during the Sochi gas summit on Friday with the relevant companies of Italy, Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia on further moves to build a gas
