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European Union’s first step towards drastically reduced data roaming charges went into effect on July 1, making it cheaper to use mobile internet in the 27 member states of the […]
Unemployment in the European Union was 10.3 per cent in May 2012, the highest since EU statistics office Eurostat started keeping records in 1995. In ...
German utility E.ON said that it has completed the sale of its Bulgarian subsidiary to private Czech energy group Energo-Pro for an undisclosed amount ...
About 350 people, nearly a third of them volunteers, were fighting a forest fire on Mount Vitosha near the village of Bistritsa on the outskirts of So ...
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev is visiting Germany on July 2 and 3 2012 at the invitation of his German counterpart Joachim Gauck. During the visit, Plevneliev is to hold meetings […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, Minister of Regional Development and Public Works Lilyana Pavlova and Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov were scheduled on July 2 2012 to visit archeological excavations […]
Sculptures of Aladdin and Harlequin are to open the sand festival in the Bulgarian Black Sea coastal city of Bourgas, the municipality said. Aladdin, Tinkerbelle, Tin Soldier, Harlequin, Little Red […]
Firefighters battling the blaze that started on Sofia’s Vitosha mountain on July 1 said early on July 2 that the fire had been localised. Teams from the fire brigade in […]
European Union sanctions against imports of Iranian oil went into effect Sunday. The sanctions are part of a growing arsenal of measures aimed at deterring Iran’s nuclear program. But will […]
Cyprus takes over the European Union presidency Sunday for the next six months. The island’s own financial difficulties and its location in the eastern Mediterranean are expected to sharpen the […]
