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The European Commission and Greece agreed on Friday on how 26 billion euros of structural and investment funds will be used between 2014 and 2020.

“The new National Strategic Reference Framework [NSRF] can act as a catalyst for growth at a crucial time for the country,” said Development Minister Costis Hatzidakis.

BELGRADE - European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva was in Serbia on Tuesday and Wednesday, where she visited flooded areas, delivered relief aid from the EU and expressed admiration for the emergency efforts shown by the government and the Serbian people.

BELGRADE - European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva delivered in Belgrade on Wednesday to the Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic the aid in the fight against floods.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy Prime Minister Ivica Dacic, who is also foreign minister, will on Wednesday head a government delegation visiting Brussels, where he will meet with the European Commissioner for Regional Policy Johannes Hahn.

Minimal damage billion Euros

The damage caused by flooding is six times larger than the limits of the EU funds from which Serbia is expecting to get so much needed help.

According to the first assessments, the damage is at least a billion of Euros, the Blic learns at the Serbia Government.
 

BRUSSELS - Despite Monday's announcement about EUR 1 billion in aid from the EU solidarity fund, Serbia can hardly count on more than around EUR 10 million from this fund, Tanjug learns from a source in the European Commission.

Serbia can count on assistance from EU fund

BELGRADE -- Serbia can count on EUR 1 billion worth of aid from the European Union Solidarity Fund in dealing with the long-term consequences of the catastrophic floods.

BRUSSELS - Serbia can count on EUR 1 billion worth of aid from the European Union Solidarity Fund in dealing with the long-term consequences of the catastrophic floods, Kristalina Georgieva, the European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, said on Monday.

PM Plamen Oresharski and the European Commissioner Laszlo Andor have discussed the future of the Bulgarian pension reform, as well as the structural unemployment, Monday.

The European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Laszlo Andor has met with Prime Minister Oresharski earlier Monday during his two-day visit to Sofia.

The European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion Laszlo Andor will come on a two-day visit to Sofia next week, said the EC press office. 

He will have meetings with Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski, deputy prime minister Zinaida Zlatanova and the Speaker of Parliament Mihail Mikov. 

In Parliament Andor will discuss matters of youth employment.