UK budget carrier EasyJet is expecting fuel prices to depress its interim pre-tax margins but it is maintaining its forecast for 20% full-year pre-tax profit growth.
In an interim management statement for the quarter ended 31 December, EasyJet says it expects first-half pre-tax margins – excluding the impact of its acquisition of GB Airways – […]

Democracy has passed one more very difficult exam in Serbia, eight years since the end of Slobodan Milosevic's regime: the incumbent president Boris Tadic got re-elected on Feb. 3, with 50.5 percent of the vote to Tomislav Nikolic's 47.9 percent.
The previous Global Voices post on the outcome of the election covered reactions of the […]