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European enlargement commissioner Štefan Füle has criticised Russia for the pressure Moscow has put recently on former Soviet satellites due to sign EU association agreements at a summit in Vilnius […]
A 35-year-old man was arrested in Sofia on September 12 2013 after his car crashed into the Turkish embassy building in the Bulgarian capital city. Lo ...
Bulgaria knows the whereabouts of two of the suspected perpetrators of the terrorist bombing at Sarafovo Airport in Bourgas in July 2012, and by March ...
Bulgaria’s consumer price index shrank for a sixth consecutive month in August, pushing the annual figures to show 0.7 per cent deflation, data from ...
The European Commission has asked Bulgaria to streamline its EU funds management, a request that the government in Sofia does not appear willing to grant, news website Mediapool.bg reported. To […]
With capacity to shelter refugees in Bulgaria now exceeded by 25 per cent, with 3600 refugees in the country, the government says it will make available two more buildings that […]
With jobless people numbering a total of 1 403 698, Greece hit a new negative record in its unemployment rate in June 2013, reaching 27.9 per cent, while the same […]
About 20 000 people took part in anti-government rallies on September 11 2013 in Warsaw, organised jointly by Poland’s three largest trade unions – Solidarity, the All-Poland Alliance of Trade […]
Following the success of Piraeus Bank’s voluntary redundancy scheme, to which nearly 2200 employees agreed – representing 12 per cent of the bank’s total workforce – Greece’s other systemic banks […]
Russian news agencies report that Moscow has given the United States its plan for securing Syria’s chemical weapons ahead of a meeting Thursday in Geneva between U.S. Secretary of State […]
