Euro zone leaders praise Greek austerity efforts
Eurozone leaders are praising the efforts of debt-ridden Greece to resolve its financial woes and resume its cost-cutting austerity. Some
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Euro crisis fuels pro-independence movements
Pro-independence parties have won a series of elections across Europe in recent days, many of them campaigning on anti-austerity platforms.
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Plans aplenty, but little certainty for nuclear power in Eastern Europe
The proposed nuclear power plant at Belene has dominated public discourse in Bulgaria in recent weeks and with good reason,
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Bulgarian Transport Minister slightly injured in car collision
Bulgarian Transport Minister Ivailo Moskovski was slightly injured when the car in which he was travelling was involved in a
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Protesters disrupt conference on Bulgaria’s communist-era culture minister Lyudmila Zhivkova
Cacophony erupted in a Sofia University lecture room when protesters disrupted the opening of a conference on Lyudmila Zhivkova, culture
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Bulgarian actor to be prosecuted for illegal movie uploads
Bulgarian anti-mafia and computer crime police have pressed charges against a 33-year-old actor after raiding his home in an investigation
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German police bust Bulgarian gang trafficking women for prostitution
Police in Bremen and Lower Saxony Stuhr arrested six people alleged to be members of a Bulgarian gang bringing women
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Bulgarian referendum question on Belene will not mention Belene, majority in parliamentary committee decides
The latest twist in the plan for Bulgarians to vote in a referendum on whether to build Belene nuclear power
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The Belene nuclear project, Bulgaria’s radioactive political issue
The farce into which Bulgaria’s planned national referendum on whether to proceed with the Belene nuclear power station has rapidly
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