The Social Democratic Party (SPD) and Green coalition, led by Stephan Weil, has won regional elections in Lower Saxony, obtaining one seat more than the outgoing coalition between the Christian-Democrat CDU and the liberals of the FDP. The result is an…

At their next meeting, Europe’s finance ministers are expected to officially endorse the appointment of the Netherlands’ Jeroen Dijsselbloem to the Eurogroup presidency. The recapitalisation of banks by the European Stability Mechanism and the rele…

In an article published by the daily, Jorge Trías Sagnier claims that the former treasurer of the conservative People’s Party, Luis Bárcenas, was responsible for a “B” set of parallel accounts. He acknowledges distributing secret bonuses to hig…

After months of discussions, eurozone finance ministers eventually found a successor as Eurogroup chairman to Luxemburg’s prime minister, Jean-Claude Juncker. During the January 21 meeting in Brussels, they are expected to appoint Dutch finance minis…

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SKOPJE (Macedonia), January 21 (SeeNews) – The Macedonian telecoms regulator said that the number of IPTV subscribers in the country rose 64.89% on the year to 58,385 at the end of the third quarter of 2012.

BUCHAREST (Romania), January 21 (SeeNews) – The Romanian arm of German logistics company Karl-Heinz Dietrich International Exped (KHD) said on Monday it plans to invest a total of 15 million euro ($20 million) in warehouses in the northwestern town of…

SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 21 (SeeNews) – US-based investment manager Artio Global Management has cut its stake in Bulgarian telecommunications group BTC [BUL:5BT] below 5.0% of all voting shares, BTC said in a bourse filing on Monday.