Bulgaria’s ruling socialists to call Parliament sitting after Budget veto
Bulgaria’s socialists, one of the two parties in the ruling coalition, said on August that the party would call an
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Month: August 2013
Bulgarian President vetoes Budget revision
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on August 7 that he vetoed parts of the Budget revision bill, which Parliament passed
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Bulgaria records highest grain harvest in eight years – minister
Bulgaria’s Agriculture Minister Dimitar Grekov said on August 7 that this year’s wheat harvest was the highest in eight years,
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Iron Age necropolis near Strouma motorway in Bulgaria destroyed
Part of an early Iron Age necropolis in Doupnitsa district in southwestern Bulgaria, in the immediate vicinity of the recently-launched
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Bulgarian Cabinet to pay 130 000 leva to relatives of Oranovo miners’ relatives, rescuers
Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on August 7 the payment of one-off aid to the relatives of miners who died in the
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Would-be thieves torch money in botched ATM robbery in Bulgaria
Burglars who attempted to crack an ATM in the Bulgarian town of Shoumen ended up burning through the plastic cash
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Murder convictions highlight Roma discrimination in Europe
A court in Hungary has jailed three men for life and a fourth for 13 years for a series of
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Erdogan’s presidential plans linked to Turkey’s economic fortunes
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s handling of recent anti-government demonstrations and his public quarrel with the country’s banks and
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Bulgarian President to challenge eavesdropping bill at Constitutional Court
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on August 6 that he will challenge the recent amendments to the Special Surveillance Means
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