Thursday, January 27, 2011

Linked2Balkan news, the 27th of January 2011 edition

British Telegraph included Montenegro among the four destinations that tourists should visit in 2011. It created the selection of the best travel destinations and, apart from Montenegro, it includes Tasmania, Zanzibar in Tanzania, and Las Picdras Fasano in Uruguay.
Ryan International Airlines will commence summer charters from Chicago Rockford International Airport and Toronto’s Pearson Airport to Belgrade. Each service will operate once per week with a Boeing B767-300, Serbian media report. Both flights will be served via a technical stop in Shannon, Ireland.
A long-awaited report card on the Small Business Act has been delayed after the European Commission’s Secretary General Catherine Day sent a December draft back, demanding that the final version contain concrete proposals, EurActiv has learned. The 16-page December draft, obtained by EurActiv, was supposed to be published last month, then this month, but now the target is late February, according to a person briefed on the plans.
The European Commission has prohibited, on the basis of the EU Merger Regulation, the proposed merger between Aegean Airlines and Olympic Air, as it would have resulted in a quasi-monopoly on the Greek air transport market. This would have led to higher fares for four out of six million Greek and European consumers travelling on routes to and from Athens each year.
A. More resource efficiency helps European businesses
Increased resource efficiency can offer competitive benefits to industry. While it does of course require additional investment, it also offers new opportunities which EU companies will want to harness. A number of European key sectors have already embarked on a resource-efficient strategy.
European executives attending the Davos forum voiced cautious optimism that the euro zone debt crisis will be resolved without contagion spreading to Spain or investors being forced to take unbearable losses. Policymakers from the United States, the European Union and the financial sector were due to focus on Europe’s debt woes at a series of private meetings and discussion panels at the annual World Economic Forum on Thursday.
In a new move to improve the business climate, officials are drawing up a “blacklist” of businessmen who have broken the law that companies will be able to access on subscription. Macedonia’s Economy Ministry said a list of dodgy businessmen will be ready and available to subscribers by mid-February.

Croatia’s EU Bid Gets Boost

EU membership negotiations with Croatia can be completed in the first half of 2011 provided its reforms stay on the right track, MEPs said in a resolution adopted on Wednesday. The resolution, which was adopted by the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, said the biggest challenge may be “selling” the benefits of EU membership to a sceptical Croatian population.

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