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IEP: Serbia is safe country

NEW YORK -- Serbia ranks 52nd in the Global Peace Index (GPI), produced by the New York-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).

This index ranks it among the top 30 percent of the safest countries in the world.

NEW YORK - Serbia ranks 52nd in the Global Peace Index (GPI), produced by the New York-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), and is in the top 30 percent of the safest countries in the world.

Kristalina Georgieva has vowed to keep working for Bulgaria's good image in her next term in office at the European Commission.

BELGRADE - Serbia intends to use as soon as possible only two loans to the total value of EUR 267 million out of the EUR 889 million worth of assistance offered as loans at the recently held donor conference in Brussels, the Belgrade-based daily Danas reported.

Serbia plans to use two donor conference loans

BELGRADE -- Out of EUR 889 million offered to Serbia in the form of loans during a recent donor conference in Brussels, the country intends to use two, a daily writes.

President Barack Obama announced billions of dollars in investment for Africa on Tuesday, as the United States challenges China and Europe's leading roles in the continent's economic emergence.
      

Serbia's new Finance Minister, Dusan Vujovic, has presented a plan for the country's economic revival, based on stricter control of public spending, the fight against the "grey" economy, better rates of tax collection and reducing the costs of public companies.

Yordan Hristoskov has been appointed caretaker Deputy Prime Minister in charge of social policy and caretaker Minister of Labor and Social Policy.

Professor Yordan Hristoskov is part of the Macroeconomics department of the Institute of Economics at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

BELGRADE - The amendments to the Law on Planning and Construction due to be adopted in early September will make room for procurement of construction permits within 28 days and introduce a special counter for investors, Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic stated on Monday.

BELGRADE – Serbia’s First Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic Monday called on members of the Serbian parliament to support Dusan Vujovic in becoming new finance minister.