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Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) became the latest state regulator to announce administrative proceedings against the country’s three electricity distribution firms, accusing them of unfair competition on May […]
Bulgaria’s far-right ultra-nationalist party Ataka hardly is worth writing about in these European Parliament elections, given that Volen Sidero ...
Bulgaria’s consumer price index rose by 0.3 per cent in April 2014, pushing the year-on-year deflation figure to 1.6 per cent at the end of the mont ...
More than half a million Bulgarians are addicted to alcohol and almost half of these drink in such quantities that their health is at risk, according ...
The US administration confirmed on May 12 that vice president Joe Biden will arrive in Romania on May 20, hours after Romanian president Traian Basescu said that he had invited the American […]
A Bulgarian man has been trapped in a bureaucratic hell after falling victim to identity theft which led not only to him being “married” but also declared dead. Ivan Kantardzhiev […]
More than 1000 people turned out for the “333” anti-government protest in Sofia on May 12 2014. It was the largest turnout for some time in the anti-government protests, which […]
Macedonia has decided to spend over half a million euro to put adverts for the country on Google. Government spokesman Aleksandar Georgiev said that the government secretariat has signed an agreement with […]
The Polish government will not recognise the results of the “pseudo-referenda” held in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine on Sunday as they do not comply with “any norms”, […]
The “referenda” held in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions are a breach of international law and of Ukraine’s constitution and are yet another attempt to revise the rule of law […]
