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Backgrounder: Repatriation and release of jailed Azeri murderer threatens to reignite frozen conflict, raises questions of Hungarian realpolitik Hungary’s government was again in diplomatic hot water this week following the […]
So, this is what a film without a screenplay looks like. The Expendables 2 is messy, simpleminded and only gets turned on by its actors self-deprecatingly playing themselves, their self-consciously […]
Europe’s central bank made a key announcement Thursday that immediately eased financial pressure on the continent’s troubled economies, lowering interest rates on some of their debts. But the move is […]
Bulgaria has climbed to 62nd place in the World Economic Forum’s annual Global Competiveness Report, up from 74th place, beating Slovakia, Romania and Greece – and is no longer in […]
Free access to personal data in Bulgaria’s Commercial Register is helping fraudsters to steal companies by changing their ownership, according to a September 5 2012 report by television station bTV. […]
Consumers in the 17-member euro zone cut back on spending on food, drink and tobacco in July 2012, leading EU statistics office Eurostat to report that the volume of retail […]
Motorists planning to travel long distances in Bulgaria for the four-day Unification Day long weekend from September 6 to 9 2012 were urged to get on the road as early […]
Bulgaria’s Cabinet was expected to approve, at a meeting on September 5 2012, changes to the Investment Promotion Act aimed at creating opportunities for increased investment in products and services […]
Five-ton Tsar Liberator Alexander II and his horse are on the move from their customary spot in central Sofia outside the Radisson Hotel – but they will be back in […]
Increasing excise taxes on cigarettes higher and earlier than originally planned is one of several measures by the Robert Fico government aimed at consolidating public finances in Slovakia. This may […]
