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In Sochi today, the most carefully watched page is not the Olympic medals count. It is the weather forecast. Down here on the Black Sea coast, daytime highs are nudging […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has issued a strongly-worded statement hitting out at “underhand scenarios” regarding the draft elec ...
Having survived a third vote of no confidence on the morning of February 12, Bulgaria’s cabinet apparently decided to shoot for the stratosphere ...
In spite of the Constitutional Court having thrown out a parliamentary resolution seeking an extension on the moratorium on the sale of land to foreig ...
Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on February 12 the third package of measures meant to “reduce the regulatory burden” on the local businesses, the government’s media service said. In total, the package […]
Lengthy hours were consumed in debate on the second reading in Parliament of the Bulgarian Socialist Party-driven draft new elections bill, as the ruling axis rejected proposed amendments that would […]
The queue of lorries at the Bulgarian-Turkish border resulting from the dispute between the two countries over truck transit permits reached about 15km on the morning of February 12 2014, […]
The votes of Bulgarian Socialist Party and Movement for Rights and Freedoms MPs, the parties in the ruling axis, defeated a motion of no confidence in the cabinet on February […]
Bulgaria has been ranked the worst among European Union countries in Reporters Without Borders’ 2014 World Press Freedom index, coming in at 100th place globally – and also is beaten […]
Serbia’s war crimes court has convicted nine former members of a paramilitary group for the 1999 massacre of more than 100 ethnic Albanian civilians in Kosovo. The court sentenced the […]
