Economy

New report from the International Labor Organization has highlighted the enormous challenges women continue to face in finding and keeping decent jobs around the world, noting that the difference in the employment rate between men and women had decreased only by 0.6 percent since 1995.

Like the previous year, a bell-ringing ceremony was held at Turkey's main stock exchange Borsa Istanbul on March 8 in cooperation with U.N. Global Compact, U.N.

In 2015, foreign direct investment (FDI) attracted to Bulgaria amounted to nearly EUR 1.6 B, which represented a 22.5 % increase compared to 2014, with the figures registering a six-year peak.

The International Monetary Fund and European lenders decided to make mutual concessions on Greek program review and the ‘Quartet’ is expected to return to Athens on Thursday evening to meet with Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos and try conclude the review.

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Serbia's Fiscal Council believes that the government should not loosen its restrictive fiscal policy too early.

Increasing economic growth and employment calls for making more efforts to improve the investment climate, this independent state body that reports to the National Assembly said.

A human chain of around fifty people stopped the demolition of one of the buildings of the former tobacco warehouses in the Bulgarian city of Plovdiv on Monday.

The demolition began on Sunday and caused a major outcry and discontent in the city, with many architects, public figures and citizens protesting it.

Tofa?, a joint venture of Turkey's Koç Holding and Italy's Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA), is set to sell the Fiat Aegea sedan to the Americas.  

The Fiat Aegea, which is manufactured in the Tofa? facility in the northwestern province of Bursa, will be exported to the Mexican market in the initial stage under the name of "Dodge Neon." 

China's foreign exchange reserves fell $28.75 billion in February, slightly less than expected and easing from a sharp slump in January, suggesting the Central Bank is scaling back its interventions to support the yuan as capital outflows ease. 

The former head of a prominent British business lobbying group, who quit his post because he supports Britain's exit from the European Union, accused Prime Minister David Cameron of scaremongering in comments published on March 7.