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Eurobank is the first Greek bank to officially return to the hands of private owners following the completion of a 2.86 billion euro share offering on April 28 2014. “The […]
Suddenly, a wave of fear rolls over as I follow several border guard officers down the sandy steps into a freshly dug-out blindage in Girsk. It was made to shelter […]
Turmoil in eastern Ukraine continued Tuesday, a day after the United States and Europe announced new sanctions against Russia for failing to take steps to de-escalate the crisis in its […]
Bulgaria’s centre-right former ruling party GERB has 17.6 per cent and the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) 15.9 per cent of voter support ahead of the country’s European Parliament elections on […]
Bulgarian Parliament voted on April 29 to overturn President Rossen Plevneliev’s veto on the amendments to the Agricultural Land Ownership and Use Act, which imposed residence requirements on foreigners and […]
Bulgaria has embarked on a “Containment Plan” to reduce the number of asylum seekers in the country, Human Rights Watch said in a report released officially on April 30. The […]
The whirr of helicopter blades and roaring of jets over Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia are no cause for alarm – the military has begun rehearsals for flypasts on May 6, […]
Amid concerns about the rise of extremist parties in Europe, around 10,000 people from around the world took part in a march Monday between the former Nazi death camps of […]
On April 28, the White House announced a fresh round of sanctions on seven Russian officials and 17 corporations. Concurrently, Brussels added 15 names to its list of sanctioned officials, […]
In a bid to further wean itself off Russian gas dependency, Ukraine on April 28 signed a memorandum with Slovakia for the supply of up to eight billion cubic metres […]
