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Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov was forced to dig deep to avoid a first-round exit at the Monte-Carlo Masters against Spaniard Marcel Granollers but prevailed in the end 6-2, 4-6, 6-2. Dimitrov […]
Bulgarian Parliament voted on April 15 to overturn President Rossen Plevneliev’s veto on the amendments to the law regulating the activity of the Na ...
Bulgaria’s Ombudsman Konstantin Penchev said on April 15 that he has asked the country’s Constitutional Court to scrap the provisions in the Elect ...
Investigations have been promised following revelations that some political parties in Bulgaria fraudulently used the official personal identity numbe ...
An investigation lasting more than a year into an organised group of Bulgarian criminals committing credit card fraud has been successfully completed with a final round of seven arrests – […]
Bulgaria’s defence minister has complained that Russia military aircrafts are continuing to carry out provocative reconnaissance flights close to Bulgaria’s Black Sea airspace, in remarks made the same day that […]
Pro-Russia demonstrators on Monday defied a government deadline to vacate occupied buildings in exchange for amnesty, as Ukraine’s interim president threatened a military crackdown. Dozens of protesters smashed windows of […]
Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta said on April 14 that his social democrat party PSD would file a complaint against president Traian Basescu for threats and blackmail after Basescu’s statements […]
National Bank of Greece (NBG) shares plummeted 12.13 per cent on April 14 as plans for the bank’s capital increase emerged. NBG is set to increase its capital by 2.1 […]
Concerns are growing about Turkey’s economy after Moody’s cut its debt-rating outlook from stable to negative. The financial rating agency blamed political uncertainty for the move and the downgrade comes […]
