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Conservative Cypriot leader Nicos Anastasiades will have to face leftist rival Stavros Malas in a runoff poll next week after failing to win a sufficient majority in the first round […]
Voters in Cyprus are going to the polls Sunday to elect a new president who must negotiate a financial rescue to prevent a government bankruptcy that ...
Four days after Yuliana Ivanova was appointed as the new head of Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission, she resigned at the reques ...
Hundreds of people from Bulgaria’s film and theatre world attended the funeral service for Todor Kolev, the prominent Bulgarian actor who died on Fe ...
There were clashes between police and protesters in the Bulgarian capital city Sofia on February 17 2013 as police blocked access to the headquarters of electricity distribution company CEZ, while […]
In the wake of Bulgaria’s expulsion of a group from Hamas, it is time for some clarity about the context of the drama. Disinformation surrounded the visit by the Hamas […]
Macedonian foreign minister Nikola Poposki has written to his Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg expressing thanks for the decision by the government in Prague to use the constitutional “Republic of Macedonia” […]
An evening meeting in Skopje between Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski on February 16 2013 produced upbeat messages on bilateral relations, notably towards a […]
Poland’s state-owned airline LOT will not use both its Boeing 787 Dreamliner passenger jets before October, as the U.S. aircraft maker has to remove their battery-related malfunctions, Lot’s newly appointed […]
Bulgaria is awaiting the outcome of tests on 86kg of samples from lasagna confiscated from a supermarket chain on February 15 2013 to establish whether it contained horsemeat. The samples […]
