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Bulgaria’s newly-elected Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) held its first official meeting on October 3, electing the council representative and a five-member committee that will draft the council’s procedural rules for […]
With Bulgaria now seemingly about three months away from a referendum on whether to go ahead with the controversial Belene nuclear power station proje ...
Newly-accredited United States ambassador to Bulgaria Marcie Ries held meetings on October 3 with the country’s interior and foreign ministers. Duri ...
The parliamentary elections that were held on October 1 2012 in Georgia are an important step in the consolidation of democratic processes in the coun ...
The European Union has congratulated Bidzina Ivanishvili’s Georgian Dream coalition on its victory in Georgia’s October 1 2012 parliamentary elections. In a joint statement, EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton […]
The volume of retail trade remained unchanged in Bulgaria from July 2012 to August, according to first-estimate figures released on October 3 by European Union statistics agency Eurostat. This followed […]
Bulgarian author Miroslav Penkov has won the £15 000 BBC International Short Story Award for his story ‘East of the West’. The announcement was made live on Radio 4’s Front Row from a […]
In Bulgaria, the media only partly fulfils its task, German ambassador in Sofia Matthias Höpfner was quoted as saying on October 3 2012 by television station bTV. He was speaking […]
Amid continued protests by renewable energy companies against the power grid connection fees introduced in September, the head of Bulgaria’s energy regulator has warned that power producers might pay even […]
Bulgarian police arrested eight Syrian citizens found hiding in a building next to a sheep-pen in the village of Yamino in the district of Kurdjali in the southern part of […]
