07:39 | 1 | Daily Telegraph, The Vancouver Sun
The only hope these countries have is to devalue their old currencies to a level that makes them competitive This is what the Spanish prime minister, Jose Zapetero, declared in an interview with the Wall Street Journal as recently as Sept. 22: "I believe that the debt crisis
08:17 | 0 | Tirana Times
Bad loans continued growing rapidly even in the third quarter of this year, confirming the severe financial problems businesses and individuals are facing to pay them off and somehow justifying the commercial banks' tougher lending standards since the beginning of 2010.
08:21 | 0 | BNR
The Greeks are worried about the state of their country’s economy and 56 per cent of them have said they fear Greece may go bankrupt. This has emerged from a survey carried out by Public Issue polling agency.
08:22 | 0 | BNR
Bulgarians and Romanians get the most expensive loans among all EU member states which haven’t adopted the common currency of the union.
08:24 | 0 | ANA
A Council of State (CoS) plenum will convene on Tuesday to hear civil suits brought by trade unions against wage cuts and austerity measures imposed this year by the government.
08:26 | 0 | ANA
Samaras said that the PASOK government's economic policy has stifled the market and plunged the country into recession, which evaporates whatever benefit that may have resulted from the salary and pension cuts.
08:27 | 0 | ANA
Independent MP and former New Democracy (ND) foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis on Sunday formally announced the founding of her new "Democratic Alliance" political party, symbolised with an olive tree and the colors blue and orange, which belongs to the Center of the
08:29 | 0 | Emg.rs
Romania is the only country in the EU 10 - including Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia - that is still in recession in the third quarter of 2010, shows the Economic Report on the EU 10 made public by the
10:25 | 0 | Agerpres
Brasov is the first city in the country where the smart grid pilot project was implemented, in an area located in the center of town, this being an innovative measure to save energy.
10:26 | 0 | Nine O'Clock
Petrom, Proprietatea Fund and Hidroelectrica are the first three rankers in the 2010 Top 100 Most Valuable Companies in Romania, a chart put together by Ziarul Financiar (ZF) and Capital Partners investment house.
10:29 | 0 | Dnevnik
Bulgarian industrial plants expect to register a rise in investments next year for the first time since 2006, according to a survey of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), carried out in October.
10:31 | 0 | ANA
A new toll station will begin operating along the Athens-Lamia national highway at the Aghia Triada intersection near Thermopylae as of midnight Monday.
10:33 | 0 | ANA
"Culture is Thessaloniki's natural and comparative advantage, and it, together with the people that serve it, will contribute definitively to the city's economic, cultural and tourism development," culture and tourism minister Pavlos Geroulanos said on Sunday.
10:37 | 0 | ANA
The Corinth Canal linking the Gulf of Corinth with the Saronic Gulf will be closed to ships for 48 hours due to the fall of rocks in a landslide on Saturday morning.
10:38 | 1 | ANA
The Piraeus coast guard on Saturday reported the discovery of a warehouse containing 2,444 crates of contraband cigarettes, or a total of 1.222 million packets of various brands.