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The European Commission (EC) has welcomed the announcement on June 8 that Bulgaria’s prime minister has ordered a halt to work on the South Stream gas pipeline project. The welcome […]
Compounding the misery of the Bulgarian Socialist Party after the thrashing dealt out to it in the European Parliament elections is the decision by th ...
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev hosted a meeting on June 9 with Bulgaria’s recently-elected members of the European Parliament, although t ...
Bulgaria reported a negative foreign trade balance of more than 1.1 billion leva with other European Union countries for January to March 2014, and a ...
Nikola Gruevski tabled in parliament in Skopje the proposed new cabinet and government programme on June 9 2014. The sitting of parliament where the new government will be voted will be […]
Serbia will have to delay the start of construction of its section of South Stream after Bulgaria announced that it was suspending work on the gas pipeline project pending discussions […]
A predictable political uproar has followed Bulgaria’s announcement that it is stopping all activities linked to South Stream pending dealing with the European Commission’s queries over the gas pipeline project, […]
The ruling party of Kosovo’s Prime Minister Hashim Thaci is claiming victory in the country’s parliamentary elections. With about 70 percent of ballots counted, official preliminary results showed the Democratic […]
Bulgaria’s cabinet has called a public tender for new furniture and kitchen equipment for Euxinograd Residence, the former royal palace outside Varna used as a state holiday home and occasionally […]
Against a background of continuing protests by emergency medical services staff over poor pay and organisation, the Bulgarian Red Cross is to train taxi drivers to help paramedics while 50 […]
