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On 17 November the EU institutions reached an agreement on the 2017 EU budget. As proposed by the Commission earlier this year, in 2017 the EU will spend more money on making Europe more competitive and more secure.

Tentative data suggest that the economy grew in October, albeit with substantially mixed economic performance across sectors.

The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed loan agreements with the Government of the Republic of Senegal in Dakar to provide Japanese ODA loans of up to a total of 35.903 billion yen for assistance for two projects.

BRICS countries are not yet in the top 20 countries in Global innovation index, says Telecom Manoj Sinha.

 

The project is called to improve the quality of providing public transportation services and to ensure sustainable operation and further development of existing public transport systems.

The Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has visited the Yad Vashem Holocaust Remembrance Centre museum and laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame memorial.

A working meeting of Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee, Oleg Belozerov, President of Russian Railways, and Dmitry Kobylkin, Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, took place at the Gazprom headquarters today.

The agenda of the PM’s visit includes familiarizing with the program of attraction of investments and prospects of development of the Kherson International Airport.