Executive Board

Georgy Gergov resigned alone as a member of the Executive Board of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), according to Dnevnik.

"I think that there is no point in dividing the party", pointed Gergov before leaving the BSP's central, where today their plenary session is being provided.

At the beginning of the Bulgarian Socialist Party's (BSP's) plenary session earlier today argued if the question for the exclusion of the businessman Georgy Gergov from the Executive Board of the party should be discussed, reported Dnevnik.

LONDON - The International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission has said the arrangement with Serbia was among the most successful in recent history, Vladimir Krulj, chief economist in Serbia's negotiating team for EU accession, has told the BBC World Service in London.

BELGRADE - The Executive Board of the Basketball Federation of Serbia on Wednesday named former Red Star Belgrade player Stevan Karadzic as the new head coach of the Serbia women's national basketball team.

Karadzic will succeed Marina Maljkovic, who led the team to a European championship title and an Olympic bronze in Rio.

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Donald Trump’s possible choice for US ambassador to the EU, Ted Malloch, is in favor of a Greek exit from the eurozone, which he believes is something that will happen at Athens’s request in a year or a year-and-a-half from now.

It will take 21 years for Greece to see unemployment getting back to the levels it was prior to the crisis.

Poul Thomsen presented a diagram during the presentation of Anders Åslund’s book.
The IMF official had similar but more optimistic estimates for Italy, Portugal and Spain.

WASHINGTON - The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Friday approved the sixth review under a precautionary stand-by arrangement with Serbia, Tanjug has learned.

The Executive Board of the IMF on Friday approved the sixth review under a precautionary stand-by arrangement with Serbia, Tanjug has learned.

Concluding a November visit to Belgrade regarding the fifth and the sixth review under the arrangement, IMF Mission head James Roaf praised Serbia's economic success, noting the good results of the economic program were continuing.

The European Stability Mechanism (ESM) is currently working on proposals for the implementation of the short-term measures agreed upon for the Greek debt relief, said German Finance Ministry spokesperson Dennis Kolberg. “The EuroGroup agreed on May 24, 2016 for the adoption of short-term measures on the debt after the completion of the first review.

Police detained Cumhuriyet Foundation Executive Board President Akın Atalay on Nov. 11 at Istanbul's Atatürk Airport after he landed from Germany, as a part of the investigation into columnists and executives at Turkish daily Cumhuriyet.