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Bulgaria’s acting Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has fired Petko Sertov as deputy director of the Cabinet’s Centre for Prevention and Countering Corruption and Organised Crime, also known as Borkor, it […]
Hungary was the latest member of the European Union to admit to prepared beef dishes tainted with horsemeat on Monday in a food scandal that is reaching across the continent […]
The political fate of Kiril Yordanov, mayor of Bulgaria’s largest Black Sea city Varna, hangs in the balance as all major parties – including the one that nominated him for […]
Israeli president Shimon Peres will urge European Uninon leaders to put Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite group, on its list of terror organisations, during a week-long historic state visit to […]
Duo Elitsa and Stundzhi will perform the song Kismet as Bulgaria’s entry in the 2012 Eurovision contest after it was chosen out of three in a March 3 vote by […]
Boiko Borissov, prime minister of Bulgaria pending the appointment of a caretaker government amid the country’s continuing political crisis, was on March 3 2013 again admitted to hospital because of […]
Thousands of protesters turned out in Sofia and other major cities in Bulgaria on March 3, with organisers announcing that they intend setting up a protest camp outside the President’s […]
To the accompaniment of a local rock band on a trailer, cries of “Volen!” and appeals from the whippers-in for the “patriots” to keep order in their line of march, […]
March 3 2013 saw Bulgaria’s senior state leaders and foreign diplomats gather at the Monument to the Unknown Soldier in Sofia for a solemn ceremony in honour of the country’s […]
Protesters in Berlin are trying to stop developers from dismantling one of the longest remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall. But, they face an uphill battle. The Berlin Wall was […]
