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Bulgarian vegetable producers are continuing their protest campaign against cheap imported vegetables from neighbouring countries Romania, Macedonia, Turkey and Greece even as the government has launched special squads to conduct […]
Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on July 3 to fire the head of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF), Plamen Tsekov, citing lack of transparency and ...
The Latin Americans came and left in their presidential jets. But Edward Snowden stayed behind. For the Kremlin, a propaganda coup is quickly becoming ...
Credit ratings agency Moody’s said in its annual report on Bulgaria that the country’s Baa2 rating is supported by the continued diversification o ...
Despite the unsettled political situation in Bulgaria, hard-earned macroeconomic and financial stability—which has helped to insulate Bulgaria from the severest effects of the global crisis—has been maintained, Michele Shannon, IMF [&he ...
Economic growth in Turkey in 2013 is forecast to remain below trend at an estimated 3.6 per cent according to the World Bank’s latest Turkey Regular Economic Brief issued on […]
The world experienced “unprecedented high-impact climate extremes” between 2001 and 2010 and more national temperature records were broken during that period than in any other decade, according to a United […]
Asian and European markets tumbled Wednesday on fears of continued Egyptian political unrest and uncertainty over the fate of the Portuguese ruling coalition. Global oil prices hit a 14-month high, […]
Egypt’s army took power from President Mohamed Morsi and suspended the constitution. Army tanks are surrounding the presidential palace, and Morsi’s whereabouts are unknown. The head of the constitutional court […]
