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European Union member states must investigate whether there were secret prisons or facilities on their territory where people were held under the CIA’s secret rendition programme in the early years […]
Russian contractor Atomstroyexport, picked to build two 1000MW nuclear reactors at Belene on the Danube River, has increased its arbitration claim aga ...
The visit on September 10 and 11 2012 to Israel by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and a large number of Cabinet ministers is of key importanc ...
The 5.8 Richter scale earthquake epicentred about nine km outside Pernik damaged an estimated 60 per cent of the houses in the Bulgarian mining town a ...
The upside about an enlightened dictator is the enlightenment part. Five years ago, Vladimir Putin took a hard look at Vladivostok, the faraway city founded in 1860 by Czar Alexander […]
Audits by Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency of 900 people uncovered 45 million leva (about 22.5 million euro) in concealed income – and those caught out have been given two weeks […]
The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) is considering Poland’s PM Donald Tusk a leading candidate for the next European Commission president, according to the latest edition of the German Der […]
Fewer than five years after becoming a country, Kosovo marked a milestone on September 10 2012 by bringing to a close a period of “supervised independence,” which saw international representatives […]
Too many of Eastern Europe’s workers and firms are engaged in the “shadow economy” — doing business and work in untaxed and unregulated markets for goods and services — according […]
International rating agency Standard and Poor’s has increased the short-term rating of UniCredit Bulbank to A-2. The long-term rating and the outlook were affirmed to BBB and stable by the […]
