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A cashier and the chief accountant of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences’ (BAS) institute for experimental morphology, pathology and anthropology have embezzled 371 000 leva between 2010 and 2012, an […]
Future EU rules for card payments should be modelled on those for cross-border bank transfers, so as to make paying cheap, easy and safe, members of t ...
A day after credit ratings agency Moody’s downgraded French government bonds by one notch below the triple-A top ranking, French finance minister Pi ...
The European Commission’s proposals to help businesses and consumers resolve cross-border legal disputes more easily got overwhelming support in ...
European Commission Vice President for the Digital Agenda Neelie Kroes and US homeland security secretary Janet Napolitano signed a joint declaration in London on November 20 2012, committing to make the […]
It will now be easier for European Union citizens living in another EU member state to stand as candidates in the 2014 European Parliament elections, following a vote on a […]
Bulgaria’s centre-right Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) nominated on November 20 former president Petar Stoyanov to fill the Constitutional Court seat left vacant after the appointment of controversial judge Veneta […]
A court in Zagreb has sentenced Ivo Sanader, who was the country’s prime minister from 2003 to 2009, to 10 years in jail for bribery and has given him 15 […]
For Moscow of 1962 – it was Yuri Gagarin. With his wide, easy grin, Gagarin was an internationally renowned poster boy for Soviet science – first man in space! – […]
Three checkpoints at the Bulgarian – Turkish border will be closed from 11pm on November 20 2012 to 6am on November 21, Bulgaria’s Border Police said, because Turkish border authorities […]
