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05 February 2010 |

Simon Cottrell It's a shame that the internet is a virtual medium, because there are a lot of people out there that I'd like to express my deep feelings of friendship to, and having spent the last two years here in Serbia, I'd like to do it in a truly Serbian way.


Feith: 'New Beginning' for Mitrovica
05 February 2010 | Lawrence Marzouk

The International Civilian Representative in Kosovo, Pieter Feith, has said the appointment of a team to create a new Serb-majority municipality in the divided city of Mitrovica could herald a 'new beginning'.

Georgieva, Ciolos Approved with New Commission
09 February 2010 |

The European Parliament has approved the new European Commission at its session in Strasbourg. Kristalina Georgieva and Dacian Ciolos are the new commissioners from Bulgaria and Romania, respectively.

Koricanske stijene: Awareness of Security
09 February 2010 |

A member of the Intelligence-Security Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina says he spoke to Milorad Skrbic while investigating the murder at Koricanske stijene and "determined that he did not have any operational data about this event".



Bulgaria Hotel Owners Set up Own Bank

Sofia | 25 November 2009 |
 
Bulgaria`s Black Sea coast
Bulgaria`s Black Sea coast
The President of the Bulgarian Association of Hotel and Restaurant Owners, Blagoy Ragin, believes the only way to deal with the negative effects of the economic crisis is to create a hotel owners' bank.

This, they believe, is the way to escape the high interest rates at times of economic crisis, Novinite reports.

The news was announced by the President of the Bulgarian Association of Hotel and Restaurant Owners, Blagoy Ragin.

The idea belongs to the hotel owner in the Black Sea beach resort “Golden Sands,” Georgi Shterev, and has received the support of over 100 counterparts from top Bulgarian tourist destinations such as “Golden Sands,” the other major beach resort “Sunny Beach'', the winter resorts of Bansko, Chepelare, Smolyan and Ribaritsa, the centers of Velingrad, and Sandanski, the cities of Sofia, Veliko Tarnovo and Dobrich.

All hotel owners, who wish to become members of the new financial institution, will have to deposit 50,000 lev, so that with 200 of all 1,000 members of the Association, the bank can reach the minimum required capital of 10 million lev, Ragin explains.

The plan is for the new bank to buy out the default loans and grant new ones with an interest rate that is two per cent lower than the commercial banks.

Ragin believes that those reluctant to join and transfer their credits are doomed to succumb to the crisis.

The hotel owners are further negotiating with the Bulgarian Construction Chamber, which also announced plans to establish their own financial institution.



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