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Bulgaria fell two spots in the World Bank’s annual Doing Business report, ranking 66th out of 195 countries surveyed, losing ground in six of the 10 categories used by the […]
Electricity distribution firm EVN Bulgaria has cut power to the trolley bus lines in Bulgaria’s second-largest city Plovdiv after the company operat ...
Depeche Mode, the band that put Bulgaria back on the map as a tour destination for big-name artists in 2006, will return to Sofia to play at the Geren ...
Thousands of Bulgarians have applied to receive retirement benefits in Greece, paying local residents to acquire address registration and bribing Gree ...
Bulgaria will host its first European Tour golf event in 2013, when the Volvo Match Play Championship will be held at the Thracian Cliffs course near Kavarna on May 16-19, […]
Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear power plant took one of its nuclear reactors offline on October 23 after mechanical failure shut down one of its power generation turbines, reports in Bulgarian media […]
A day after hundreds of people held protest rallies throughout Bulgaria demanding increased state subsidies for children, Labour and Social Policy Minister Totyu Mladenov said on October 23 that the […]
Election Day is on Sunday, but it feels more like Christmas in some of Ukraine’s districts. Yury Kruk, a Party of Regions candidate running for a single-mandate seat in Odesa […]
An Italian court on Monday convicted seven scientists and experts of manslaughter for underestimating the risks of a killer earthquake and failing to adequately warn citizens before it struck the […]
Kosovo police have used tear gas and pepper spray to break up a protest in the capital, Pristina, by stone-throwing nationalists opposed to European Union-mediated talks with Serbia. Authorities said […]
