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SARAJEVO (Bosnia and Herzegovina), February 3 (SeeNews) - The share indices of Bosnia's two bourses closed mostly higher this week, stock exchange data showed.

The SASX-10 index, which tracks the 10 blue chips of the Sarajevo Stock Exchange (SASE), closed up 0.93% from a week earlier at 826.2 points on Friday.

Austria's OMV said on Friday it plans to start in the next few months talks with parties interested in acquiring its retail and commercial business in Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

In line with OMV's strategy, the sale of OMV Hrvatska and OMV BH is under consideration. This would involve a total withdrawal from both markets by the end of 2013, the Austrian company said in a statement.

Germany's Umarex plans to acquire a majority stake in Bosnian ammunition maker Pobjeda-Sport, the government of Bosnia's Federation said.

The Federation government is expected to shortly approve the transaction, it said in a statement earlier this week, quoting the Federation's prime minister Nermin Niksic. The statement was released after a meeting between Niksic and Umarex vice president Martin Wonisch and executive director Johanes Fink.

SThe Macedonian stock indices continued their fall in lower turnover this week, bourse data indicated on Friday. The MBI-10 index, which tracks the 10 blue chips on the Macedonian Stock Exchange, edged down 0.01% from last Friday, closing at 1,931.58 points.

Macedonia has called a tender for the construction of a multi-story car park in Skopje’s downtown, a notice in the EU procurement journal indicated.

The contract covers the construction, craftsmen works, installation and other services related to the construction of a car garage with business premises at the Mal Ring site in Skopje, the notice in the Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) showed on Thursday.

Macedonia's central bank said on Thursday it cut its forecast for the country's gross domestic product (GDP) growth in 2012 to 2.4% from 3%, mainly due to the euro zone debt crisis. Macedonia's economic growth in 2011 stood at a real 3.3%, NBRM said in a statement, quoting preliminary data.

Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration and national coordinator of Serbia's cooperation with the EU in the Danube region Bozidar Djelic said today that of 24 municipalities in the Danube area only nine have submitted projects, although the financial construction of the Danube strategy will soon be closed.

Opening the conference “Danube strategy, ideas and projects”, Djelic pointed out that there is no justification for such inertia in these municipalities, especially bearing in mind that the proposed projects would be the sources of funding.

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Minister of Foreign Affairs Vuk Jeremic said today that the support of Hungary and Croatia is of great importance for Serbia's European integration, which is of central strategic priority for our country.

Jeremic said at a news conference after talks with Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Balazs and Croatian Foreign Minister Gordan Jandrokovic in Budapest that the cooperation between Serbia, Hungary and Croatia is of great importance for the stability of the region.

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Bulgaria PM Boyko Borisov has accepted the resignation of Health Minister Bozhidar Nanev after he was charged over the ‘Tamiflu’ scandal on Tuesday.

Borisov said Wednesday that he had accepted Nanev’s resignation but added that he has not yet been dismissed from his post. He added that more materials regarding the case will be presented after the Easter Holidays.

“The only chance for our citizens and Europe to believe us is if we are uncompromising. I do not care from which party people come from as long as justice is served,” Borisov concluded.

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