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Economic and business sentiment in the European Union and euro zone improved in May 2013, according to survey results released on May 30. In May the Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) […]
Greece’s Central Bank expects the country’s economy to shrink by 4.6 per cent in 2013, a report released on May 29 2013 shows. The good news is that the report, […]
Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the statutory body that checks and discloses the names of people in certain categories who formerly worked for the country’s communist-era State Security, has named yet another […]
The European Union’s efforts to combat tax evasion took a small step forward on Wednesday as Austria agreed in principle at a summit of EU leaders in Brussels to eventually […]
Europe is giving six of its financially struggling countries, including the major economies in France and Spain, more time to control the deficit spending of their governments. Austerity – calling […]
The U.N. war crimes court has convicted six Bosnian-Croat political and military leaders on charges of murder, rape and the expulsion of Muslims from Bosnia during the breakup of Yugoslavia […]
After finding macroeconomic imbalances in half of EU’s member states, the European Commission issued on May 29 country-specific recommendations on measures that the countries should adopt in the next 18 […]
With the votes of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), Bulgaria’s 42nd National Assembly voted the socialist-nominated Plamen Oresharski cabinet into power on […]
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has reported that the consolidated Budget deficit for the first four months of the year was 286.4 million leva, about 69.3 million leva higher than in the […]
One MP from ultra-nationalist party Ataka registered as present in Parliament on May 29, providing a quorum for the vote on the proposed cabinet of Plamen Oresharski, but Boiko Borissov […]
