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Dacic to attend ministerial meeting in Latvia
BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivica Dacic will visit Riga on March 6 and 7 where he will attend an informal meeting in the Gymnich format that will gather ministers of foreign affairs of EU members and candidate countries.
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Tsipras’ Europe Tour II eyed
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is reportedly planning another round of official visits to western Europe to better make the case for his government’s reforms and policy.
However, Tsipras’ plans to travel to Paris and Brussels will depend on a decision by Monday’s Eurogroup.
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Cyprus wins ECB chief praise on road to renewed growth
Bailed-out Cyprus will return to growth in 2015 following a three-year recession, a survey showed Thursday, after the island won praise from European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi.
An economic review by the small EU member?s second largest bank, Hellenic, said Cyprus could be on course for marginal 0.5 percent GDP growth from a decline of 2.3 percent in 2014.
ECB says willing to restore financing for Greek banks once deal is reached
European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi said Thursday that the ECB is prepared to restore a key channel of financing for Greek banks once Athens reaches a debt deal with its eurozone partners.
"The ECB is the first to wish to restart lending to the Greek economy providing the conditions are in place," Draghi told a news conference.
ECB set to start bond purchases next week
The European Central Bank will launch into quantitative easing next week having increased its economic growth forecasts for this year and next.
President Mario Draghi said the first bond purchases with new money would take place on March 9.
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Greece cannot rely on ECB to dodge funding crunch, Draghi says
Greece cannot rely on the European Central Bank to raise a limit on Athens' issuance of short-term debt, ECB President Mario Draghi suggested on Thursday.
He also said the rules meant the ECB could not buy Greek bonds under its new asset-buying programme.
ECB keeps rates unchanged as investors await QE details
By Stefan Riecher
The European Central Bank kept interest rates unchanged at record lows as investors wait for President Mario Draghi to reveal more details of his 1.1 trillion-euro ($1.2 trillion) bond-buying plan.
Improve control on Serbian-Hungarian border
BELGRADE - Serbian Minister of Interior Affairs Nebojsa Stefanovic and European Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos agreed on Thursday that control on the Serbian-Hungarian border needs to be intensified so as to tackle the problem of illegal migrations from Kosovo.
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ECB raises Greek ELA funding ceiling by 500 million euros
The European Central Bank has increased the Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA) funding ceiling for Greek Banks by 500 million euros, according to international media reports.
That means that Greek banks can now access ?68.8 billion euros, to cover their liquidity shortages.
FM Kotzias to participate in the informal "Gymnich" Meeting of EU Foreign Ministers
Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will participate on Friday and Saturday, 6 and 7 March 2015, in the two-day Informal Meeting of EU member-state Foreign Ministers (Gymnich Meeting), which is taking place in Riga.