Hungary

BELGRADE - In the early morning hours of April 6, 1941, Nazi Germany unleashed a massive attack on the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.

The attack dragged Yugoslavia into World War II, even though Yugoslav governments, both before and after the putsch of March 27, attempted to avoid this by all means available.

Several people in Romania and abroad joined the initiative of two young men of Brasov and contributed to aids to villagers of Doboi, Harghita County - ethnic Romanians, Orthodox, living within a local majority of ethnic Hungarians of Catholic and Protestant faith, and talking to each other in Hungarian even in their homes.

Photo credit: (c) GINA STEFAN / AGERPRES FLOW

The foreign ministers of Hungary, Serbia, Greece, Turkey, and Macedonia will exchange views on possibilities for participating in the Turkish Stream project at a meeting on April 7 in Budapest.

BELGRADE - Serbian Foreign Minister Ivica Dacic said Friday that his German counterpart Frank-Walter Steinmeier will pay a visit to Serbia on April 28.

"This is our most important foreign policy activity in April," Dacic said at a regular monthly press conference.

At the invitation of Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will depart for Budapest on Holy Monday, 6 April 2015, to take part the following day in a Pentalateral Ministerial Meeting between Greece, Hungary, Turkey, Serbia and FYROM on the subject of energy security in Central and Southeast Europe.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras plan to discuss economic ties and the European Union's sanctions against Moscow when they meet for talks next week, a Kremlin spokesman said on Friday.

The Romanian capital market needs American corporate investors and their global network to get the liquidity and development necessary to attain the status of emerging market, says Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB) CEO Ludwik Sobolewski.

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NIS - The 16th International Fair of Tourism and Active Holiday opened in the Cair sports hall in Nis on Thursday, with over 130 exhibitors presenting their tourism supply at over 80 booths.

Tour operators and tourism organisations from Serbia, Greece, Hungary, Montenegro and Republika Srpska are present at the fair.

After Bulgaria's leading blue-chip index SOFIX returned to a growth path in March, it has been moving up in the rankings of Central and Eastern Europe.

According to calculations of Bulgarian business news portal investor.bg, based on Bloomberg data, SOFIX moved to second place among the top-performing indices in the region in March.

By Lenka Ponikelska

While Greece may have one foot out the door, policy makers in the European Union's east are reopening the debate about whether to join the euro area after years of shunning the currency during the global financial crisis.