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BELGRADE - The Serbian government will discuss the 2015 budget on Wednesday, Serbian Minister of Finance Dusan Vujovic said on Tuesday, adding that the work on the fiscal strategy will be finished in the coming days.

BELGRADE - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Tuesday that the government expects economic growth next year, despite opposite projects from the IMF.

"We expect economic growth next year, which will come as a great surprise in the first year of fiscal consolidation," he told reporters in Belgrade.

Being one of the few Turkish economy pessimists sometimes makes me question my knowledge of economics. Luckily, the International Monetary Fund (IMF)’s annual report on Turkey arrived just in time to confirm my economic sanity- as I found many of the recurrent themes from my columns in the report.

The German government will stop issuing credit guarantees for exports to Greece at the end of the year because private insurers have signaled they are ready to cover the risks of non-payment themselves.

The Romanian authorities and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Saturday morning held negotiations at the headquarters of the Ministry of Public Finances (MFP) focused on the budget deficit issue, a release from the MFP informs AGERPRES on Saturday.

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By Roula Salourou

The International Monetary Fund has proposed the introduction of a single set of regulations for calculating social security contributions and taxes, as well as a common rate of contributions for all workers insured in social security funds, i.e. both salaried workers and the self-employed.

Greek 10-year bond yields fell 42 basis points to 7.33 percent on Friday as the country’s deputy prime minister said he expected to have an initial deal with EU/IMF inspectors on their delayed bailout review by December 15.

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Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Friday said that negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are under way and that he does not believe the ongoing agreement will be ended, although he finds unacceptable a deficit that is 0.9-percent of the Gross Domestic Product that the IMF demands.

BELGRADE - Adopting the 2015 budget will be the toughest part of the first stage of the implementation of measures launched by Serbia as part of the deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), says Serbian Minister of Finance Dusan Vujovic.

A joint IMF and European Commission delegation had its first discussions with Romanian officials on Tuesday over the Balkan country's draft budget for next year.

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