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At a special meeting on March 7, the Bulgarian Socialist Party’s national council voted overwhelmingly for the expulsion of Georgi Purvanov and his allies in the former BSP leader’s rival […]
The EU-wide centre-right European People’s Party elected Jean-Claude Juncker, formerly prime minister of Luxembourg and former Eurogroup preside ...
Kremlin-controlled media have launched an information war to justify Russia’s seizing of Crimea. In response, Ukrainians are organizing to counter M ...
Ukraine will sign the political part of an association agreement with European Union within the next few weeks, according to Prime Minister Arseniy Ya ...
The United States, Bulgaria and Romania are to hold a joint military exercise in the Black Sea, less than 500km from Crimea, involving the USS Truxtun, a destroyer that is […]
Renovations to Sofia central railway station, to cost close to 56 million leva (about 28 million euro) will begin in early April 2014 and are scheduled to be completed within […]
The development of natural gas interconnectors in the region was on the agenda at a meeting of the prime ministers of Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia in the Bulgarian Danube city […]
Global food prices in February 2014 rose to their highest level since mid-2012 as a result of unfavourable weather and increased demand, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) […]
The Bank of Greece has released the results of the stress tests that BlackRock Solutions carried out on the loan portfolios of the country’s banks. Banks must come up with […]
Bulgarian officials and analysts have sought to downplay any fears that the ongoing stand-off in Ukraine may lead to interruptions in gas supplies, saying that Bulgaria had sufficient reserves to […]
