IKEA

Sweden's furniture retailer IKEA has installed "the IKEA tower" - a 45-meter tall symbol of its store at Bubanj Potok, near Belgrade.

This "symbolically announced the end of works" on this store, the first the company has built in Serbia.

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic met with Swedish Parliament Speaker Urban Ahlin on Wednesday to discuss bilateral relations, Serbia's EU path and economic cooperation between the two countries, to be significantly enhanced by the opening of a new IKEA outlet in Belgrade.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic met on Wednesday in Belgrade with Swedish Parliament Speaker Urban Ahlin.

According to the Serbian government, they discussed "bilateral relations, Serbia's EU integration and economic cooperation between the two countries, which will be significantly improved by opening the new retail store IKEA in Belgrade."

BELGRADE - Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic on Monday spoke on the phone with Swedish PM Stefan Loefven, who congratulated him on winning last week's presidential elections.

The vast neighborhood of Mladost should break away from Bulgaria's capital Sofia and turn into a city of its own, the local mayor Desislava Ivancheva suggested last week, in what later turned out to be a financial dispute.

International Swedish furniture design company has informed its customers to return its recalled its “Mystingso” beach chairs for risk of failing or finger entrapment. The company issued a statement urging customers who had purchased the specific chair before February 2017 to return the product to any IKEA store for a full refund.

BELGRADE - IKEA is a development project, not only for Belgrade, Mladenovac and Sopot, but for Smederevo, Smederevska Palanka and Pozarevac, all the way to Velika Plana, Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic said Friday, announcing more investments in that part of the country.

Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic on Friday visited the construction site of the first IKEA department store in Serbia, in Bubanj Potok, near Belgrade.

IKEA is a development project, not only for Belgrade, Mladenovac and Sopot, but for Smederevo, Smederevska Palanka and Pozarevac, all the way to Velika Plana, he said, announcing more investments in that part of the country.

Four hooded robbers on Monday night broke into the Ikea homeware and furnishings store near Athens International Airport in Spata, northeast of the Greek capital, and made off with an ATM, police said on Tuesday.

The robbers allegedly broke into the store's central doorway and removed a Piraeus Bank ATM, which they loaded into their getaway car.

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on Wednesday it bought 15 percent of retailer Fourlis's 40 million-euro bond last month, in another effort to kick-start the ailing Greek economy.