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An online survey carried between June and April 2014, including 7,555 respondents from across Southeast Europe, show Albania has the lowest number of unemployed young people actually seeking a job.

Only 36 per cent of the respondents in Albania said they were actively seeking employment, followed by Macedonia and Montenegro, where the figures were 38 and 39 per cent.

BELGRADE - The role of the civil sector in Serbia must be strengthened in order to increase the transparency of legislative procedures after the forming of the new government, it was stated on Tuesday at the media conference on experiences of the Visegrad Group.

Police are checking the Sofia courthouse after a bomb signal on Tuesday afternoon.

Around 2:45 PM, an anonymous man called in to alert the police that there is a bomb placed in the central Sofia courthouse, Vesti.bg reported.

The is no confirmation yet whether the signal was false.

BELGRADE - The Netherlands Forensic Institute is expected to provide its reply concerning the case of journalist Dada Vujasinovic once an official of the Serbian Prosecutor's Office visits the Netherlands in early May, the daily newspaper Danas has reported.

Corruption in Greece’s public and private sectors dipped by 15 percent last year, according to a report carried out by the Greek branch of Transparency International which found that 30 percent of respondents said they refused to deliver under-the-table payments, known as “fakelakia,” when asked for them.

Over the past few years skeptics at home and abroad have speculated that debt-hit Greece will have to leave the common currency area.

Such gloomy predictions were yesterday debunked in the most official of ways. Euro-exit scenarios are no longer on the cards and the usual doomsayers have mostly fallen silent.

Ivan Balev, head of the Demographic and Social Statistics unit of Bulgaria's National Statistical Institute (NSI), has insisted that the 2011 census was deeply flawed.

Balev, as cited by Darik radio, claimed that the shortcomings of the 2011 census were due to mistakes of census workers and statisticians.

The decreased electricity consumption might bring BGN 8 M losses to Bulgaria's nuclear power plant Kozlodui. 

Because of the unusually warm weather and low electricity consumption, Bulgaria's Electricity System Operator ordered the limiting of energy production by all power stations. 

BELGRADE - Serbia created a good investment environment, and the field of renewable energy sources is the most attractive for investment, Assistant Energy Minister Dejan Trifunovic said on Wednesday.

BELGRADE - The business association National Alliance for Local Economic Development (NALED) invited on Friday the parties running in the snap parliamentary poll on March 16 to present the economic reforms they intend to conduct as part of their political programme.