Romania and Bulgaria, among countries sustaining average crisis effects (Nine O’Clock)
2010 estimated foreign investment on the local market will be about 3.5 pc of the GDP, says IMF representative Tonny Lybek.
Italian PM visits Belarus (AP via Yahoo! News)
Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has become the first Western leader to visit Belarus in 15 years, as the authoritarian former Soviet state takes small steps toward reform.
Serb leader wants EU visa exemption to cover Kosovo (Eu Business)
(BRUSSELS ) – President Boris Tadic on Monday welcomed an EU decision to grant visa-free travel to Serbia, while hoping the policy will be extended to Kosovo, which he insisted remains a Serb province.
US grants 262 million dollars in aid to Moldova (AFP via Yahoo! News)
The US-run Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) said Monday it will give 262 million dollars in aid to Moldova to improve agriculture and roads.
Bulgarian singers to face the music over tax fraud (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Bulgaria will investigate musicians for possible tax evasion as part of a drive to curb rampant fraud and raise budget revenues at a time of recession, the national revenue agency said on Monday.
Kosovo confident ahead of UN court hearing (AP via Yahoo! News)
A day before the world’s highest court begins deliberating the legality of Kosovo’s split from Serbia last year, their leaders clashed Monday over the Western-backed statehood that has shaken the Balkans.
Czech championship result and standings (Reuters via Yahoo! Sports)
Czech championship result and standings on Monday. Banik Ostrava 2 Sigma Olomouc 0
Bulgarian championship result and standings (Reuters via Yahoo! Sports)
Bulgarian championship result and standings on Monday Lokomotiv Plovdiv 0 Slavia Sofia 2
Romanian opposition says president hit boy in face (AP via Yahoo! News)
Romania’s government has collapsed and its economy is in shambles but its presidential campaign has been dominated in recent days by a video that appears to show the president striking a 10-year-old boy in the face.
Czech: Iraq planned attack on Radio Free Europe (AP via Yahoo! News)
Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime planned to use an anti-tank rocket to attack the U.S.-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Prague, the Czech Republic’s counterintelligence service said Monday.
