Friday, January 21, 2011

Linked2Balkan news, the 21st of January 2011 edition

Bulgaria’s key infrastructure projects will be financed by the European Investment Bank, the Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov has annunced. On Friday, Borisov met with President of the European Investment Bank Group Philippe Maystadt.
Compared to the previous month, turnover in November 2010 higher only in one industrial grouping. In November 2010 compared to a month earlier turnover grew only in capital goods industries (by more than 1%), while it fell in intermediate goods industries as well as in consumer goods industries (in each by almost 1%).
In December 2010, industrial producer prices grew by 0.2% at the monthly level and by 4.2% at the annual level. In December 2010 output prices grew by 0.2% at the monthly level. In December 2010 the output prices were 0.2% higher than in November 2010.
Non-resident Ambassador of BiH to the Republic of Lebanon, Mr. Zlatko Dizdarević and Assistant Minister for International Legal and Consular Affairs in BiH Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Zoran Perković, attended on January 16, 2011 in Beirut the opening ceremony of Honorary Consulate in Lebanon and the appointment of the Honorary Consul of Bosnia and Herzegovina to Lebanon, Mr. Ziad Isaa.
The Turkish-French consortium Limak Holding and Aeroport de Lyon, which will be running Priština’s airport for the next 20 years, have announced plans for a brand new terminal. Construction of the new terminal is expected to begin by the end of the month, Nihat Ozdemir from Limak told local press.
The European Parliament gave its green light on Wednesday (19 January) to an EU-Serbia Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA), but tied its support to a series of conditionalities. MEPs voted overwhelmingly in favour of the legal agreement, which regulates Serbia’s relations with the EU and leaves the door open for future accession.
State aid for broadband in 2010 was more than four times the amount in 2009 and comprised a record total of €1.8 billion in public funds. But scepticism remains as to whether EU funds will inject competition into the high-speed Internet market. Though the flow of state aid into rolling out ultra-fast fibre networks is unprecedentedly high.

Romania – Public Financial Management, Social Protection, and Financial Sector Strengthening Program

The Second Development Loan (DPL2) to Romania for that country’s Public Financial Management, Social Protection, and Financial Sector Strengthening Program aims to support the Government of Romania’s structural reforms in three key areas.

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