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Greek Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis on Tuesday called for calm in tense negotiations with the country's international creditors.

BELGRADE - President of the Fiscal Council Pavle Petrovic said Tuesday that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has recognized the significance of the reform of public companies in Serbia and intends to include monitoring the implementation of reform plans into its program.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Tuesday asked the members of the Cabinet to draw up the draft budget for 2015 until the arrival of the delegation of the European Commission (EC), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (WB) in Romania.

In a fresh sign of growing tension in the Greek coalition government, PASOK spokesman Dimitris Karydis (photo) accused New Democracy parliamentary spokesman Adonis Georgiadis of calling on the government "to pull its pants down" to the country's international lenders, calling him a "spokesman for the troika."

BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Labour, Veteran and Social Affairs Aleksandar Vulin has met with officials of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission, headed by Zuzana Murgasova, to discuss his ministry's activities in the areas of social dialogue, social protection, labour legislation and labour inspection.

International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde on Monday wrote to Greek Justice Minister Haralambos Athanasiou clarifying that threats she has alluded to having received over comments regarding tax evasion in Greece were made over social media and not addressed to her personally.

A doctor said to be "extremely ill" after being infected with Ebola in Sierra Leone was being treated in the United States on Nov. 16, while the world's most powerful economies vowed to "extinguish" the deadly epidemic.
      

Greece's economy emerged from a prolonged austerity-led recession as early as the first quarter this year and expanded in the next two quarters as well, data showed on Friday.

This is the first time published data has shown Greece emerging from the crippling recession it sank into when its debt crisis exploded, forcing the country to seek aid from foreign lenders.

Central bank trims key policy rate to eight percent

BELGRADE -- The National Bank of Serbia (NBS) decided to trim the key policy rate by half a percentage point, to eight percent, the Serbian central bank said on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Serbia will meet the requirements set out by the mission of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), because it is good for the country, Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said Thursday, adding his fears that reforming public enterprises would turn to be more difficult than he had expected.