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US secretary of state John Kerry visited Moldova on December 4 to re-affirm Washington’s support for Chisinau’s drive for closer ties with the European Union. Kerry met with president Nicolae […]
The European Union and Turkey are to sign a readmission agreement on December 16 2013, and on the same day, begin a visa liberalisation dialogue. Prog ...
Bulgaria’s cabinet supports the challenge in the Constitutional Court by 55 members of Parliament who want the court to overturn a parliamentary ...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says Moscow will not interfere in the political unrest in neighboring Ukraine and says other nations should sta ...
Bulgaria has the highest mortality rate in the European Union, with infant mortality double the rate of the rest of the EU. This is according to an annual report on […]
The head of the Bulgarian Parliament’s internal affairs committee, Atanas Merdzhanov of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, has said that he wants to see the Dossier Commission – the body charged […]
Plamen Oresharski has gone into full reverse on his controversial statement on November 15 that people on the public payroll who take part in anti-government protests would be dismissed. The […]
Members of Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on December 4 2013 to approve the first reading of Gambling Act amendments that bring the country’s legislation closer to international practices and put an […]
The European Commission said on December 4 that it fined eight international financial groups a total of 1.71 billion euro for participating in cartels to rig the benchmark interbank exchange […]
Codrut Seres, Romania’s economy minister from 2004 to 2006, and Zsolt Nagy, telecommunications minister from 2004-2007 were sentenced on December 3 2013 by Romania’s High Court to six years and five […]
