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Bulgaria ranked second from bottom in a survey in European Union countries of perceptions of judicial independence. This was the second year running that Bulgaria ranked second-bottom, and perceptions of […]
President Barack Obama has moved to impose sanction against Russian officials the U.S. sees as implicated in Sunday’s Moscow-backed Crimea referendum on the peninsula’s secession from Ukraine. Obama’s order applies […]
Authorities in Ukraine’s separatist Crimean republic say voters have overwhelmingly approved union with Russia in a controversial referendum that has Western leaders preparing sanctions against Moscow. On Monday, Crimea’s parlia ...
Unemployment in Bulgaria in 2013 rose by 0.6 percentage points from the previous year to 12.9 per cent, according to National Statistical Institute (NSI) figures released on March 17. The […]
European Union annual inflation was 0.8 per cent in February 2014, down from 0.9 per cent in January, EU statistics office Eurostat said on March 17. A year earlier the […]
The March 14 shootout in a Bulgarian town between an allegedly mental ill man and a police team in which a police officer died and three were wounded continues to […]
Living conditions in refugee camps in Bulgaria are improving and more accommodation is on the way, but the process of granting official refugee status continues to be slow. There was […]
An estimated 5.24 million leva (about 2.68 million euro) are expected to be up for grabs in one of the jackpots of the Bulgarian state lottery by the time of […]
U.S. President Barack Obama told his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin Sunday that Washington and its “European partners are prepared to impose additional costs” on Moscow for backing a secession referendum […]
Serbia’s ruling center-right party has won an outright parliamentary majority in an election that will cement its grip on power. The independent Belgrade-based CeSID polling group says the Serbian Progressive […]
