Bulgarian socialist MP apologises for calling protesters ‘internet lumpens’
Bulgarian Socialist Party MP Hristo Monov says that he apologises for using the term “internet lumpens” to describe the anti-government
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Year: 2013
Barroso underlines concerns to Oresharski
European Commission President Jose Barroso underlined a series of concerns in talks in Brussels with Plamen Oresharski, who occupies the
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Exhibition in Plovdiv marking 60th anniversary of East German uprising
An exhibition marking the 60th anniversary of the June 1953 uprising in East Germany is to open in Bulgaria’s second
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Germany blocking Turkey’s EU membership talks
Germany is blocking Turkey’s next step towards membership in the European Union over Ankara’s crackdown on anti-government protests. All 27
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ECHR rejects challenges to Slovakia’s citizenship law
Over the past three years, Slovakia and Hungary have not been able to resolve a dispute over citizenship rights that, along
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The longest day for Bulgaria
Bulgarians woke up on June 21, in the northern hemisphere the longest day, to the news that after a marathon
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Film review: Trance
One couldn’t imagine a more appropriate title than this one. Danny Boyle, who last directed James Franco in the cinematic
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Film review: Man of Steel
Guns blazing, fireballs glaring, smoke rising, people dying. Such is the first 20 minutes of Man of Steel, the latest
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Bulgaria in a deepening crisis, President Plevneliev says after security council debacle
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said that the country is in a deepening crisis and, again effectively siding with the many
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