Source: Reuters * Sofia reverses plan to raise health tax after criticism
* Civil servants to pay contributions for first time instead
* Slow pace of reform to hamper recovery, economists warn
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Macedonian FM Antonio Miloshoski says that his country "supports Kosovo’s integrity" and that it will help it in the process of visa liberalization.
Miloshoski said that today’s opening of the Macedonian embassy in Priština was a "confirmation of good interstate relations with Kosovo".
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United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will organize youth entrepreneurship training worth more than EUR 500,000.
The program will take place at the Youth Offices, with support from the Youth and Sports Ministry, it has been announced in Belgrade on Monday.
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Opposition Serb Progressive Party (SNS) leader Tomislav Nikolić said that over a million people have signed the petition for early elections.
He said that SNS will submit the petition to the government in ten days.
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Cabletel, one of Bulgaria's largest cable TV operators, is putting a spoke in the wheel of the sale of Bulgaria's first national private television bTV to CEM, reports say.
The conflict dates back from a few months ago and concerns Cabletel refusal to air bTV recently launched theme channels without an increase in the subscription fees.
The media wants its two theme channels - bTV Cinema and bTV Comedy - to be aired free of charge for the subscribes, but the cable operator says this is impossible due to the high price that bTV wants to charge.
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Bulgaria's EU Commissioner, Kristalina Georgieva, who is in charge of the EC humanitarian aid portfolio, has answered questions of Novinite.com (Sofia News Agency) and a couple of Bulgarian-language media before she joined the Ambassadors of the EU member states in Sofia for a special lunch organized by the Spanish Embassy in Sofia as part of the program of the Spanish EU Presidency.*
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A Kosovo Serb man, identified as Bojan Pešić, sustained light head injuries when he was attacked on Monday.
The incident took place in the Paralovo village in the Gjilane municipality, in the eastern parts of the province.
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Panic was sparked in Georgia after a TV station broadcast news that Russian tanks had invaded the capital and the country's president was dead.
The Imedi network report, which brought back memories of the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, was false.
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Bojan Gudurić, accused of the murder of Croat journalist and publisher Ivo Pukanić and his colleague Miko Franjić, pleaded not guilty to the charges.
After the indictment was read in Zagreb on Monday, Gudurić said that he was not guilty of any of the counts of the indictment that accuses him of the murder of Pukanić and Franjić, who were killed in a car bomb explosion on October 23, 2008, or the organized international crime that had the goal of killing two other people in Zagreb.
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Serbia and Kuwait have excellent political relations, but the economic cooperation between the two countries should be improved, PM Mirko Cvetković says.
His comments came after meeting with Kuwaiti top political and economic officials.
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Aleksei Petrov, who is behind bars awaiting trial on multiple charges, and who has been labeled as a DANS spy, is not and never was a secret agent.
Georgi Kolev, Chair of the Sofia City Court (SCC), has announced this conclusion in a court report covering the past year.
Under Bulgarian law, every agent must enter into an agreement with the prosecutors' office, which defines the criminal acts that may be committed during any mission, for which the agent would not be held legally liable.
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The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) foreign exchange reserves dropped by EUR 71.4mn in February.
The figure now stands at EUR 10.6bn, the central bank announced on Monday.
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A higher level of GMOs than the allowed limit was found in 7% of the food products tested by the Sofia public health body RIOKOZ in 2009.
A high content of GMOs was found predominantly in sausages, wafers and confectionery products. In most cases, the GMO content in these products was over 2% and the limit value in Bulgaria is 0,9%.
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Dozens of owners of Bulgarian small enterprises took to the street on Monday in protest against a controversial regulation that subjects them to double taxation, a requirement that they deem detrimental.
The protesters carried banners, reading: "Stop the genocide against Bulgaria's business" ,"Make reforms, not tax hikes", "We thank Minister Djankov for killing us so that we may not suffer during the crisis."
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The president of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) said that Kazakhstan could make significant contribution to the European Union's values. On the first day of his four-da...
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Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu informed on Monday the Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Affairs on resolutions about the incidents of 1915, which were brought onto agenda of parliaments of ...
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LOSC Lille Métropole defender Adil Rami told UEFA.com he was learning fast from marking Liverpool FC's Fernando Torres. "You can't let him turn because when he does he runs at 2,000 kilometres an hou...
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