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Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court said on April 3 2014 that it had agreed to hear an application lodged against President Rossen Plevneliev’s decree sharing out the seats on the Central Election […]
Ukraine’s acting interior minister has alleged that the killing of protesters in Kyiv took place under the orders of ousted president Viktor Yanukovych. The government also announced Thursday the detention […]
The total volume of retail trade in Bulgaria in February 2014 was 9.2 per cent higher than in February 2013, according to seasonally-adjusted figures released by European Union statistics office […]
Sofia City Court found Filip Zlatanov, the former chairperson of the government’s commission on preventing conflict of interest, guilty on charges of abuse of power and sentenced him to three […]
The European Council and European Parliament formally added Moldova to the list of third countries whose nationals are exempt from visa requirement on April 3, making it possible for Moldovans […]
The EU is set to launch the first satellite of its ambitious civilian Earth-monitoring programme, Copernicus, on April 3. The Sentinel-1A satellite will carry an advanced radar to scan Earth’s […]
Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has called a meeting of all prosecutors handling investigations into the cases of arson of the cars of journalist Genka Shikerova and the bombing of journalist […]
Bulgaria’s Green Party says that it has lodged a challenge in the Supreme Administrative Court to the cabinet’s March 19 decision to grant first-class investor status to the company that […]
The U.S. space agency, NASA, is suspending most of its work with Russia’s space program in the wake of Russian actions in Ukraine. However, NASA says the two nations will […]
Rebuffing his government’s efforts to censor parts of the Internet, Turkey’s highest court Wednesday rejected Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s block of Twitter, saying it violates freedom of expression and […]
