BUCHAREST (Romania), January 15 (SeeNews) – Austria's Erste Group said on Tuesday it is writing down goodwill mainly associated with its Romanian unit Banca Comerciala Romana (BCR) in the amount of 300 million euro ($401 million).

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.

LJUBLJANA (Slovenia), January 15 (SeeNews) – Slovenia's average net monthly salary fell by a real 4.0% on the year to 1,035 euro ($1,381) in November, the statistics office said on Tuesday.

TIRANA (Albania), January 15 (SeeNews) – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said on Tuesday it is providing 12.7 million euro ($17 million) in financing for a hydro power plant (HPP) dam upgrade in Albania.

SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), January 15 (SeeNews) – Passenger traffic at Bosnia’s international airport in Mostar totaled some 80,000 in 2012, the airport’s director, Marin Raspudic, said on Tuesday.