SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 15 (SeeNews) – Bulgaria's central bank said it will auction 40 million levs ($27.3 million/20.45 million euro) in five-year Treasury notes on January 21.

PODGORICA (Montenegro), January 15 (SeeNews) – Montenegro’s state budget deficit widened to 128.6 million euro ($171.6 million) in the first eleven months of 2012 from 80.8 million euro a year earlier, the central bank data indicated.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 15 (SeeNews) – Bulgaria’s regional development ministry said on Tuesday it invites eligible tenderers to express interest in a project for construction works on the Plovdivtsi Dam and a water treatment plant.

BUCHAREST (Romania), January 15 (SeeNews) – Romania's property restitution fund Fondul Proprietatea [BSE:FP] said on Tuesday its profit reached some 567 million lei ($173 million/129 million euro) in 2012.

SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), January 15 (SeeNews) – Bosnia’s foreign debt rose to a preliminary 6.92 billion marka ($4.6 billion/3.5 billion euro) at the end of September from 6.49 million marka a year ago, central bank figures showed.

ZAGREB (Croatia), January 15 (SeeNews) – Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Croatia totalled a preliminary 452.7 million euro ($606 million) through September 2012, data from the country’s central bank showed on Tuesday.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 15 (SeeNews) – Russian company Metrovagonmash has won a 80.1 million lev ($54.8 million/40.95 million euro) deal for the supply of railway and tramway locomotives in Bulgaria, a notice in the European Union’s procurement …

ZAGREB (Croatia), January 15 (SeeNews) – Croatia's consumer prices rose 4.7% year-on-year in December after advancing by an annual 4.4% in November, the statistics bureau said on Tuesday.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), January 15 (SeeNews) – Germany's Fraport reported on Tuesday an increase in the number of passengers serviced last year at the two airports it operates on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast.