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BELGRADE - An informal meeting of foreign and finance ministers of Western Balkan countries, dedicated to economic management and cooperation, will take place in Belgrade on Thursday, the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement.

Belgrade hosts informal regional conference

BELGRADE -- An informal meeting of foreign and finance ministers of the West Balkan dedicated to economic management and cooperation, is taking place on Thursday.

It was announced by the Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Thaci's ministers to take part in Belgrade conference

BELGRADE -- Kosovo's foreign and economic development minister Enver Hoxhaj and Fadil Ismaili will participate a regional ministerial meeting in Belgrade, Beta reported.

The agency said this was announced on Tuesday by Kosovo Prime Minister Hashim Thaci.

Macedonia's Vice Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Zoran Stavreski, has denied environmentalists' claims that the coat of the planned dam in the Mavrovo national park may soar from the originally planned sum of €85 to almost €200 million.

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A new government will be set up because otherwise Bulgaria will not be able to update the budget, caretaker Prime Minister Georgi Bliznashki said.

In what was described as Bliznashki's last interview as PM, he voiced his hope that parties would overcome swiftly overcome their differences to take part in the future government.

Bulgaria should have either a center-right alliance or a grand coalition, interim Prime Minister Georgi Bliznashki believes.

Austrian daily newspaper Der Kurier has published an article devoted to the return to power of former Prime Minister Boyko Borisov after the early elections in Bulgaria.

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Social Democratic Party's (PSD) mouthpiece Dan Sova on Wednesday told a press conference held in Alba Iulia that, in case Victor Ponta becomes Romania's president, he won't choose the Prime Minister from among the PSD members, but he would prefer a technocrat instead. However, he had no favorite politician in mind for the spot yet.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta announced he will present Romania's steps to promote youth employment at a high-level conference on this topic hosted in Milan by the Italian presidency of the European Council on Wednesday.

The Emergency Mobile Resuscitation and Extrication Service (SMURD) project is important for Romania, having benefited from the support of all governments ensuing after 2003, and it is also probably the most advanced in Europe at the moment, said Prime Minister Victor Ponta, on Tuesday, at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MAI), on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of SMURD's ae