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European Commission President José Manuel Barroso expressed on October 24 2013 his disagreement over scenarios talking about a new “haircut” on the Greek debt, by sending a clear message to […]
European Union foreign ministers have green-lighted the resumption of membership talks with Turkey. Negotiations have been stalled for three years by political tensions and, more recently, the Turkish government’s violent […]
European Jewish Congress President Dr. Moshe Kantor welcomed and praised the passing of a vote in the Greek parliament to cut off government funding to the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, […]
Foreigners will be able to get permanent residence in Bulgaria if they have invested at least a million leva (about 500 000 euro) at a licensed credit institution for no […]
Bulgaria strongly supports the spirit and purpose of the envisaged Transatlantic trade and investment partnership agreement between the United States and the European Union and would like to see it […]
Leaders of the European Union’s 28 nations will meet in Brussels on Thursday as controversy swirls over allegations the U.S. National Security Agency monitored the cell phone calls of German […]
Bulgaria’s Olympic weightlifting champion Gulubin Boevski, sentenced to nine years and four months imprisonment in Brazil last year on charges of attempted drug trafficking, returned to Sofia on September 23, […]
There are close to 8000 refugees in Bulgaria and the number is expected to reach 11 000 by the end of the year, with some days already seeing more than […]
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin confirmed on October 23 that during a visit to meet his counterpart in Athens a few days earlier, he had used the name “Former Yugoslav […]
For centuries, Moldovans have been proud of their wines. Outside Chateau Vartely, flags snapping in the breeze reflect the variety of this modern vineyard’s new wine markets – from Italy […]
