Serbia’s Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic visits the United Nations on Thursday for meetings with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and other top diplomats to discuss the implementation of the six-point plan in Kosovo and the formation of the Kosovo Security Forces.
The politics of Macedonia’s conservative Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski are sparking nationalism and provoking Greece, undermining efforts to resolve the two countries’ name dispute, Greek Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis said on Monday.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development revised down its projections for the economic growth of Balkan states, with Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria and Croatia expected to grow by two percent or less this year due to the global financial crisis.
Tirana, Jan. 28, 2008 (AE) – The Bank of Albania decided on Wednesday to slash its base interest rate by 0.5 per cent, after weeks of heavy pressure from banks and media. REPO interest rate is now 5.75 per cent.
Tirana, Jan, 27, 2008 (AE) – An association of construction companies in Tirana asked for “immediate government help” on Monday, claiming that the Global Financial Crisis could sent them into bankruptcy.
Tirana, Jan, 27, 2009 (AE) – Internet penetration rate in Albania grew to 18 per cent during 2008, compared to 15 per cent in 2007, but it is still too low while Internet connections remain quite expensive, Top Channel TV reported on Monday.
Tirana, Jan. 27, 2008 (AE) – Albania’s third mobile operator, Eagle Mobile, won a bid to offer its mobile services for the employees of public administration, thus earning as much as 60,000 new customers, the company announced.
One miner was killed and another injured on Sunday after a gallery collapsed at a chromium mine in the town of Bulqiza, in northern Albania.
XL World announced on Friday that it willnew multilingual outsourcing centre in Shkoder, Albania.
At the end of 2008 Macedonians owed around 1.0 billion euros to banks in mortgage, business and other household loans, an equivalent of 500 euros for each of the country’s two million people, local media say.