Trieste

FinMin: Slovenia will stay comparably favourable for capital

Maribor, 2 March - Finance Minister Andrej Bertoncelj has told the newspaper Večer that despite the planned increase in schedular taxation, Slovenia will stay a "comparably favourable country", with capital still being less taxed than on average in the OECD countries.

What happened there - not just at the end of World War II, but before the war - is far from a clear-cut story.

Tajani was speaking at a ceremony held to honour the victims of the Yugoslav Partisans' 40-day rule over the city of Trieste.

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic signed today An agreement on the seat of the Permanent Secretariat of the Transport Community with Acting Director of the Permanent Secretariat of the Transport Community Alan Baron.

The summit in London will bring together the leaders of the Western Balkans and most European officials who will discuss economic cooperation with a focus on the region, the security and challenges of the migrant crisis, the future of the "Berlin Process" and the current political developments in the region.

Lithuania and Latvia shared with Romania, starting from their own experiences, the particulars and opportunities specific to the process of preparing and exercising the mandate of the EU Council Presidency, and these consultations have identified good practices such as the opportunity to use European funds to prepare the additional staff involved in the presidency, said Romania's Ambass

MT KOPAONIK - Regional cooperation in the Western Balkans has received a new impetus through the Berlin Process to design a common approach to addressing the key economic challenges and jointly respond to the demands of European and global markets, says Regional Cooperation Council (RCC)Secretary-General Goran Svilanovic.

Tanjug is reporting on Wednesday that this was "confirmed today in Brussels."

An agreement to set up the Transport Community was signed last summer in Trieste, Italy, during a summit of Western Balkan leaders.

Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borissov is on a working visit to Rome on 14th of November. The invitation for the visit was made by Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni during their bilateral meeting at the European Council in Tallinn in September, quoted by BNT.

Metsovo, a mountain village in the Pindos area, northwestern Greece is a model of development with robust wine and culture-based tourism.

Serbia unexpectedly withdrew all its diplomatic staff from Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), on Sunday.

The Ambassador to FYROM, Dusanka Divjak Tomic, on Sunday told Beta news agency that she could not comment on the reasons, referring queries to the Foreign Ministry in Belgrade for answers.