On the 48th day of anti-government rallies in Bulgaria, the traditional morning protest outside Parliament morphed from “drinking coffee” to “sunbathing” on July 31. Several dozen people came to the […]
Bulgaria’s MPs voted on July 31 to extend the Parliament session by two days and will start their summer recess on August 5. Parliament bylaws stipu ...
Georgi Enev, the security guard charged with stealing 1.47 million leva (about 750 000 euro) from an armoured van, pleaded guilty and received a priso ...
Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on July 31 the Government legislative agenda until the end of the year, as well as the regional development plans for th ...
Bulgaria’s former prime minister Boiko Borissov called on July 31 for the ruling coalition to schedule early parliamentary elections at the same time with European Parliament elections in May 2014. […]
The 27-member European Union ended June 2013 with 10.9 per cent unemployment, seasonally adjusted, down from 11 per cent in May, according to EU statistics office Eurostat. Initially, Eurostat reported […]
Rescue operations to reach two miners at Bulgaria’s Oranovo coalmine, who were trapped in a collapse on July 16, drew closer to their goal by completing a bypass tunnel to […]
Bulgaria’s Prosecutor’s Office said on July 31 that it has filed charges against Tsvetan Tsvetanov for refusing to authorise wire-tapping as part of a police investigation. Tsvetanov, the former interior […]
In 1990, an American anthropologist wrote a controversial book: “Is Latin America Turning Protestant?” Two decades later, that same provocative question can be asked of Russia. Who will win: The […]
Romania will introduce as of September 1 new taxes and increase part of the existing ones in order to counter-balance the abrupt decrease of VAT on bread, the ministry of […]