Bulgarian tobacco producers and traders are foreseeing purchase prices in autumn 2012 being 10 to 20 per cent higher than last year because of harvests being smaller but with tobacco […]
A strike by employees of Plovdiv’s City Transport company over unpaid salaries several months in arrears entered its second day on September 25 2012, leaving Bulgaria’s second city with less […]
A shift from theory to practice is intended to strengthen Bulgarian school pupils’ command of foreign languages, while Education Minister Sergei Ignatov said that the shortage of English-language teachers was […]
Two people arrested by Czech police on charges of deliberately distributing methanol-tainted alcohol that has led to 25 deaths and more than 40 people being admitted to hospital could face […]
European Union President Herman Van Rompuy says the continent is losing momentum in trying to resolve its three-year debt crisis. Van Rompuy on Monday said European leaders must not lose […]
Treasures that apparently were stolen from Poland by Swedish invaders in the 17th century were revealed on the riverbed of Warsaw’s Vistula, dried due to a severe summer drought which […]
French embassies, consulates and international schools in 20 Muslim countries were closed on Friday after cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad were published earlier this week by a French satirical magazine. […]
Bulgaria scored poorly in the annual Air Quality in Europe report published by the European Environment Agency on September 24, which found that despite progress made in reducing air pollutants […]
Bulgaria has made progress in the past three years in reducing the number of traffic accidents and road fatalities in the country, senior officials have said in recent days. On […]
US ambassador-designate in Sofia, Marcie B Ries, outlined her priorities in office in a video posted by the US embassy in Sofia on its YouTube channel. These include “introducing more […]