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Bulgarian MPs were able to make their way out of Parliament at the end of the session on November 12 after police forced a clear path for MPs’ cars despite […]
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Zinaida Zlatanova’s attempt to take a potshot at the opposition has backfired, instead highlighting lack of communic ...
Bulgarian Irina Bokova was elected to a second term as head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Novemb ...
Students who occupied the central campus of Sofia University to press their demand for the resignation of the Bulgarian Socialist Party government are ...
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev and Plamen Oresharski, appointed in May to sit in the prime minister’s chair in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government, issued a joint statement on November 12 […]
Bulgaria’s two major trade union federations have formed a joint strike committee but it is an open question whether this signals that they will take to the streets in alliance […]
The EU Council and the European Parliament reached agreement on the European Union budget for 2014 in negotiations in Brussels on November 11. The budget amounts to 142.6 billion euro […]
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has provoked a political storm in Turkey over his call to crackdown on mixed sex student accommodations. The prime minister claims the move is in […]
Poland’s Independence Day celebrations were disrupted by violent riots for the third year in a row as large groups of masked young people threw stones, firecrackers and set fire to […]
