Member states of the United Nations

BELGRADE - The road to democracy is difficult and challenging, and if the rule of law is to be fully established in Serbia, the sources of corruption need to be reduced and the judiciary put in order, said the participants of the conference on Freedom Barometer 2014.

Russia "not against closer CIS ties with EU"

MINSK -- Russia has nothing against other CIS member states building closer ties with Europe, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.

The Health Ministry's general secretary Christina Papanikolaou said on Friday that Greek authorities were braced to deal with a potential Ebola infection in Greece in the wake of several cases being reported in Spain, the Former Yuguslav Republic of Macedonia and the Czech Republic.

Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta is paying a visit to the Republic of Moldova on Friday aimed at carrying out several common actions with Moldovan counterpart Iurie Leanca, the Government's Press Office said in a release to AGERPRES.

Bulgarian citizens keep around BGN 400 M in Swiss banks, according to estimates of the National Revenue Agency, quoted by the Pressa daily.

They are based on information from Swiss banks on the interest rates, paid off by them.

Two men who were killed during the recent wave of violent protests in Turkey have been identified as Saudi Arabian and Syrian citizens, Anadolu Agency has reported

BELGRADE - The Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on Thursday welcomed the progress achieved by Serbia in the EU accession process, announcing that it will continue to support the Serbian government in further consolidation of the reform process.

The IMF has lowered its prediction of growth in Montenegrin GDP from 2.8 per cent to 2.3 per cent amid concerns of the impact of the eurozone crisis and sluggish demand for goods and services.

The founding of the Romania-Ireland Business Association (RIBA) is a valuable contribution to Romania's and Ireland's economic development, in the general context of the European Union, National Bank of Romania (BNR) vice governor Bogdan Olteanu told the first conference organized by RIBA on Thursday.

BELGRADE - Jadranka Joksimovic, Serbian minister without portfolio in charge of the European integration, has said that positive assessment prevails in the European Commission (EC) report on Serbia's EU integration progress.