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The morning of June 13 is to see the National Assembly vote on the motion of no confidence in the current government, with reasonable certainty that the cabinet will survive […]
Ukraine has rejected a Russian offer that would effectively cut the price Kyiv pays for gas by 20 percent. Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseny Yatsenyuk s ...
The meeting of the cabinet on June 11 did not discuss the issue of the resignation of the government, Mediapool reported, quoting ministers Dimitar Gr ...
As Bulgaria waits to see just when the Bulgarian Socialist Party government will resign, there is another question – on June 14, will anti-governmen ...
In his first remarks to reporters in Sofia since his party was vanquished in Bulgaria’s May 25 European Parliament elections, far-right Ataka leader Volen Siderov said that his party might […]
The new members of the Greek government were sworn in on June 10 following a reshuffle announced by Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Monday. The ceremony coincided with the release […]
Developing countries are headed for a year of disappointing growth, as first quarter weakness in 2014 has delayed an expected pick-up in economic activity, according to the World Bank’s Global […]
Apart from the logistical improbability of Bulgaria holding ahead-of-term national parliamentary elections in July, Bulgarian Socialist Party chiefs did not endorse Sergei Stanishev’s call for this date or for the […]
Soon after Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev called for ahead-of-term parliamentary elections to be held by the end of July, there was a clamour of voices denouncing this as […]
Sofia Opera and Ballet is to present Modest Mussorgsky’s opera Boris Godunov on an open-air stage next to Sofia’s Alexander Nevsky cathedral on June 27, 28 and 29 – the […]
