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Macedonia’s prime minister Zoran Zaev commented to journalists on the visit by foreign minister Nikola Dimitrov to Greece, saying that the issue of the name of his country will not be […]
Bulgarian transport workers who protested at the Kulata border checkpoint with Greece on May 29 ended the protest after talks with authorities who agreed to meet the bulk of their […]
The Union of Bulgarian Transport Workers says that it is going ahead with a protest at the Kulata border checkpoint with Greece on May 29, contradicting a statement by Bulgaria’s […]
A bomb hidden inside an envelope has exploded in Athens inside the car of the former Greek Prime Minister, Lucas Papademos. The former Prime Minister and his driver have remained […]
Greece and Bulgaria have a long history of proximity coupled with tensions, differences, but also a common historical course during the Ottoman Empire, while the Eastern Orthodox Church is still […]
The Greek finance ministry’s financial and economic crimes unit confiscated close to 1300 litres of smuggled alcohol in March as part of a Europol-Interpol operation targeting counterfeit and substandard food […]
Bulgarian passport-holders coming into the country to vote in the March 26 elections would now be coming via Greece instead of directly across the border because of planned blockades by […]
Very little progress was made in the meetings held over the weekend between Greek government ministers and the “quartet” of the country’s international creditors. Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, Alternate Finance […]
Bulgaria’s Energy Ministry was drafting the necessary tender documentation to pick a contractor that would build the gas inter-connector pipeline between Greece and Bulgaria, targeting early 2018 for the start […]
Following the February 20 2017 Eurogroup meeting in Brussels, several conclusions could be drawn as to what the Greek government took away and what remains to be done in terms of […]
