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A 5.8-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Greece in the Aegean Sea was felt in Bulgarian capital Sofia on January 8, shortly after 4.15pm local time. The earthquake epicentre was […]
Hristo Pimpirev became the first Bulgarian to set foot on the South Pole on January 8, flying the country’s flag in one of the least accessible poin ...
Public broadcaster Bulgaria National Television will host the first television debate on January 9 2013 on the country’s forthcoming referendum on t ...
Bulgarians spent four billion leva during the 2012 Festive Season and the period immediately before, the country’s National Revenue Agency (NRA) sai ...
The volume of retail trade in the European Union rose by 0.2 per cent in November 2012, according to estimates from Eurostat, the bloc’s statistical office. Retail trade in the […]
The new European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), which officially launches this week at Europol in The Hague, will be the focal point in the EU’s fight against cybercrime, Europol said in […]
More than two million people in the European Union lost their jobs between November 2011 and November 2012, bringing unemployment in the 27-member bloc to 10.7 per cent in the […]
The World Bank Group has announced the debarment of Energoprojekt Niskogradnja, a Serbian civil engineering and contracting company – for a period of two and a half years following the […]
The trial of former Croatian Serb leader Goran Hadzic, the last fugitive sought by the United Nations Yugoslav war crimes tribunal, resumed at the Hague on Monday. Hadzic is one […]
