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Two days after Bulgaria’s Cabinet announced the plans to introduce a 10 per cent tax on all income from deposit interest starting January 1 2013, the country’s ruling party GERB […]
Bulgaria’s Parliament passed at first reading on October 12 a bill of amendments to the Investment Promotion Act, meant to introduce new incentives ...
The awarding of the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union is acknowledgment for all of us that we can overcome our differences and live togethe ...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has an approval rating only just above his disapproval rating, remains substantially more popular than his Cab ...
The European Union has been awarded the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize. The Norwegian Nobel Committee in Oslo announced the winner of the prestigious prize during a ceremony Friday The committee […]
Bulgaria’s Economy, Energy and Tourism Ministry has said that it will revoke the licence of On Travel, the tour operator that left customers stranded abroad in Turkey. The company could […]
Election results in the two European countries that vote in parliamentary elections on October 14 2012 are likely to be quite different, with the government in Lithuania set for defeat […]
The vice-presidential election debate saw Republican Paul Ryan win in the soundbite stakes, including at least one carefully-enunciated zinger that may or not have been scripted in advance; but Romney’s […]
Bulgarian Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov joined an official working dinner with Hollywood stars Robert De Niro and John Travolta, given by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, the Culture Ministry […]
Washington’s suspension of dues to UNESCO after Palestine became a formal member last year has left the U.N. agency grappling with a funding crisis, and the United States risks losing […]
