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Organisers of the annual Eurovision Song Contest will suspend participating broadcasters for up to three years if their countries are found to be attempting to cheat, the European Broadcasting Union […]
Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court said on February 6 that the amendments to the tax laws introducing a single taxpayer account, passed in 2012, were u ...
Turkish foreign minister Ahmet Davutoğlu postponed a scheduled visit to Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia on February 6 and 7 so that he could attend t ...
The anti-government “Early Rising Students” group is to hold a protest on February 6 against an increase in the salaries of members of Bul ...
A committee including academics, actors and university students has been set up to organise a petition in support of Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev’s call for a referendum on electoral law […]
Sofia city council voted on February 6 to approve the 2014 municipal budget for the Bulgarian capital city, with only the councillors from the Bulgarian Socialist Party voting against the […]
Prosecutors in Bulgaria have started pre-trial proceedings in connection with the spending of money that had been intended for the building of a tent camp for 800 refugees. This emerged […]
EU’s executive arm has called on the United States to lift the visas for five member states – Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Poland and Romania – or else the bloc will […]
An association of road transporters in Romania has asked the government not to introduce a seven euro cent fuel excise as of April, which has ruffled political feathers in Bucharest, […]
Some years ago, a mayoral election candidate in Sofia pledged that if elected, he would rid the city of its rats. But this would-be political Pied Piper, it turned out, […]
