Organizations

"I'm an Englishman in New York," says David Miliband, the former UK foreign secretary (2007-2010) who since 2013 has lived in New York, working as the president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee (IRC). An organization founded at the call of Albert Einstein in 1933, the IRC is helping communities and people in more than 40 countries to cope with humanitarian crises.

In 2022, gross domestic product (GDP) per capita, expressed in purchasing power standards (PPS), varied between 59 percent from the European Union average in Bulgaria and 261 percent in Luxembourg. This is shown by the latest data of the European statistical agency Eurostat, published yesterday on its official page and quoted by BTA.

European Union leaders agreed on Thursday to back a revamp of the single market, simplified regulations and other steps to ensure the bloc can compete with the United States and China as an industrial leader in green and digital technologies.

The Finnish president on March 23 formally sealed the Nordic country's historic bid to join NATO by signing into law the required national legal amendments needed for membership in the Western military alliance.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken called on March 22 on Congress to agree to $150 million to rejoin the U.N. culture agency UNESCO, saying the U.S. absence was letting China write rules on artificial intelligence.

Türkiye has a new opportunity for European Union membership as the EU's current focus is security, which means a newly constructed relationship with NATO, Germany's former Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer has stated.

BELGRADE - Serbian Deputy PM and Finance Minister Sinisa Mali on Thursday began discussions with an International Monetary Fund (IMF) mission as part of the first review of Serbia's current standby arrangement with the IMF.

The IMF mission, headed by Donal McGettigan, will be in Belgrade until April 4.

Greece is putting forward a plan to overhaul the EU's electricity grids in order to lay the foundations for a massive rollout of renewable power. Athens is arguing that efforts to expand and strengthen Europe's electricity grid need to be stepped up in order to handle the transition to solar and wind, especially with the EU looking to reach climate neutrality by the middle of the century.

BELGRADE - Serbia has met all its commitments from an agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), but public enterprises - above all, the power company EPS - pose the highest risk to reforms, says Milojko Arsic, editor of the economic publication Kvartalni monitor.

Bob Menendez, US Senator and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sharply criticized Turkey on its stance towards NATO enlargement, its relations with Greece and Cyprus, and its human rights record, saying it does not "deserve" to acquire new fighter jets from the United States.