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"The Governing Council of the Bulgarian National Bank has united around the idea of reproducing the design of the current exchange coins, which will ensure continuity in the monetary signs used and will facilitate the recognition of the new currency by Bulgarian citizens, namely: the Madara Rider - on the small coins; St. John of Rila - on the 1 euro coin; and Paisius of Hilendar - on the 2

Greek senior bank bonds are plummeting on Monday, after Eurgroup President, Jeroen Dijsselbloem stated Friday that Greek depositors would be shielded from any losses resulting from the recapitalization of the Greek banks. “The bail-in instrument will apply for senior bondholders whereas the bail-in of depositors is explicitly excluded’, the Dutch Finance Minister had stated.

The ‘Yes’ camp holds a slim lead in the Greek referendum according to an opinion poll published by ALCO in daily newspaper Ethnos on Friday. The findings put the ‘Yes’ supporters at 44.8 per cent against 43.4 per cent for the ‘No’ vote, with 11.8 per cent still undecided. The pollster said the result is within its 3.1 margin of error.

More than half of Romanians, 58.4 per cent, believe that Romania should reintroduce the mandatory military service, according to a poll conducted by Inscop Research at the request of Adevarul daily.

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BELGRADE - The dinar only grew by one para on Thursday, making the official medium dinar-to-euro exchange rate RSD 120.0227, the central bank said in a statement.

The Serbian currency has grown by 0.1 percent against the Eurozone currency compared to a month ago, dropping by 3.8 percent compared to a year ago.

Now that the lira and other emerging market (EM) currencies have somewhat stabilized, at least for the moment, it may be useful to try to understand why some underperformed, while others overperformed, peers.

The nationwide voter turnout in today's presidential election was of 35.10 per cent by 16:00 EET, the Central Electoral Bureau (BEC) has announced.

Turnout was 34.34 percent in the urban area and 36.14 per cent in the rural area. As many as 34.84 per cent of the Bucharest resident voters also cast a ballot by 16:00 EET.