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Just a day after Bulgarian ultra-nationalist Ataka party leader Volen Siderov demanded that the country extend the ban on the sale of agricultural land to foreigners by seven years, Dimitar […]
Claims that a major gas deal between the state and a financial group was masterminded by the latter led to an attempt to sack Slovakian prime ministe ...
Germany will hold parliamentary elections Sunday, with current Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party riding high in the polls. Optimism over the economy ...
The top United Nations official in Kosovo has strongly condemned the September 19 2013 attack on a European Union convoy that resulted in one death, a ...
Every year, the eurozone loses an estimated one trillion euros in revenue from multinational companies that don’t pay taxes on their European profits. These companies, including tech giants like Apple, […]
Scandinavian cinema is easily distinguished by its specific style, which has attracted great interest over the years – first with the masterpieces of Ingmar Bergman, later with the scandalous Dogme […]
Oliver Hirschbiegel, who made a film about Adolf Hitler in 2004 (Der Untergang, released for the English-speaking market under the title Downfall), has now directed a movie about another figure […]
Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush) is a respected auctioneer in Vienna who lives a very lonely life of luxury. He is surrounded by works of art every day at work, and […]
The refugee situation in Bulgaria is not yet under control, Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev said on September 19 2013, speaking after a meeting with eight mayors to discuss steps to […]
Bulgaria has emerged as among European Union states with the best rates in recent years of collecting value-added tax (VAT) – though it has also emerged that across the EU, […]
