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.

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.

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.

BELGRADE (Serbia), January 15 (SeeNews) – Serbia's finance ministry said on Tuesday it sold 10 billion dinars ($120 million/90 million euro) in 53-week Treasury bills, equal to 100% of its offer.

BELGRADE (Serbia), January 15 (SeeNews) – Serbian oil and gas company NIS expects that its shareholder will vote in June on a proposal to pay out dividend from its undistributed profit for 2012, the company’s CEO Kiril Kravchenko said on Tuesday.

ZAGREB (Croatia), January 15 (SeeNews) – Belgian biotech Galapagos NV said on Tuesday that its research site in Zagreb will form the basis of a newly created service division, called Fidelta.

Nemački proizvođač automobila Volkswagen AG saopštio je da je 2012. imao rekordnu prodaju zbog rasta tražnje u svetu.

Kompanija Apple smanjila je zahteve za isporuku neophodnih delova od dobavljača, što je znak da prodaja novog telefona iPhone 5 ide slabije od očekivanog, piše “Wall Street Journal”.