Workers in Greece and Portugal staged new protests Wednesday against austerity measures that are cutting their wages. A Greek general strike – one of more than 30 in the last […]
It was hot, very hot. The forecast was for unbroken sunshine and temperatures in the mid-30s. It was weather for hiding from the sun, not indulging in ...
The teams of Cleves and EBRD Bulgaria won the November 5 2013 pub quiz, organised by the Cedar Foundation, and will share the big prize – a voucher ...
Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry said on November 6 that the term of Bulgaria’s ambassador to Brazil Chavdar Nikolov would be cut short following disci ...
With the number of refugees now close to 10 000 and the issue having long since turned into a political football, Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev told Parliament on November 6 that […]
Groups of students at 15 higher education institutions in Bulgaria are now involved in the anti-government “Occupy” protest that began two weeks ago at Sofia University and that have won […]
Slovakian president Ivan Gašparovič has handed his Bulgarian counterpart Rossen Plevneliev 100 000 euro as a grant to help Bulgaria cope with the refugee crisis. The use of the funds […]
The number of street dogs in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia has decreased, from more than 11 000 in 2007 to 6635 in 2013, according to a survey by the Four […]
Greek finance minister Yannis Stournaras met with the troika inspectors in Athens on November 5 2013 in what was the first of a series of meetings to be held between […]
A 24-hour general strike in Greece on November 6, organised by the country’s two largest trade unions in protest against the government’s continuing austerity measures, was expected to disrupt air […]