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"Pensions and salaries increase won't be symbolic"

A planned salaries and pensions hike will not be symbolic, but will also not jeopardize the path of reforms, says Minister of Finance Dusan Vujovic.

Vujovic told B92 on Thursday that Serbia is now, thanks to savings, in a position to "bring back" salaries and pensions, and not only to the previous level, "but to a much higher level in the coming years."

Albania Charges Former Central Bank Governor

Prosecutors in Albania on Tuesday said they had charged former central bank governor Fullani with dereliction of duty over the theft of some 713 million lek (five million euro) and over the purchase by the bank of a state-owned property in 2010.

Fullani, 60, was arrested on September 2014 but released pending further investigations few weeks later.

Greek tricks to bypass capital controls

Since the capital controls stormed into the everyday lives of ordinary Greeks it took us some time to adjust and find our footing. How to go about the mundane tasks of withdrawing some cash to visit the supermarket, or pay the private school for the kids etc. But to paraphrase the saying a little ‘necessity is the mother of inventiveness’.

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