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Having found himself at the centre of the controversy after the publication, last week, of proposed amendments on curtailing the rights of Bulgarian citizens abroad to vote, Bulgarian President Roumen […]
Valeri Simeonov, one of the co-leaders of the United Patriots coalition of nationalist parties in Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 parliamentary electio ...
Bulgarian socialist party leader Kornelia Ninova struck a civil tone in a brief election night statement on March 26, congratulating former prime mini ...
Romania rarely features in international media, yet the scenes of mass demonstrations in Bucharest and other major cities last week may feel oddly fam ...
The biggest star of the election night news conference by Roumen Radev was not the candidate himself, leading in the exit polls after the first round of presidential elections in […]
One of the defining trends in the global economy in 2015 was the persistently low prices of oil, which sank to their lowest in more than a decade in December […]
As clocks ticked away the last hours of 2014, the news that the parliament in Athens was dissolved on the last day of the year to pave the way for […]
A year ago, nearly to the day, Russian President Vladimir Putin was announcing, during a visit to Ankara, that the South Stream gas pipeline would be re-directed, making landfall in […]
Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta resigned on November 4 following large protests against the authorities’ response in the aftermath of the fatal fire in a Bucharest nightclub at the weekend, […]
A year after the Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB) asked to be put under the central bank’s administration on June 20 2014, Bulgaria has made very little headway towards a satisfactory […]
