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Austrian oil and gas company OMV and Russia’s Gazprom signed on June 24 an agreement to build a branch of the South Stream gas pipeline to Austria, a move that […]
A new bout of torrential rain hit the Bulgarian town of Dobrich on the afternoon of June 24, five days after the deadly floods that deluged Dobrich an ...
The move by Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev to resign his seat as an MP to become a member of the European Parliament was slammed by ...
The messy break-up of the business relationship between banker Tsvetan Vassilev and controversial MP Delyan Peevski continues to play itself out, with ...
Bulgaria’s anti-government Protest Network has written to Plamen Oresharski and the four parliamentary groups in the National Assembly, with a copy to President Rossen Plevneliev, demanding precise clarity on when […]
Planned consultations among Bulgaria’s political parties represented in the National Assembly did not go ahead on June 24, but could still happen by the end of the week. At a […]
A group of Syrian refugees is among volunteers who have joined in cleaning up the Asparouvo area of Bulgaria’s Black Sea city of Varna, which was devastated in deadly floods […]
About 35 700 hectares of farmland in Bulgaria have been affected by the floods that hit parts of the country in the past week, Agriculture Minister Dimitar Grekov said on […]
Russia’s Vneshtorgbank (VTB) banking group is not interested in participating in the recapitalisation of Bulgaria’s Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), news agency RIA Novosti has reported, quoting an unnamed source at […]
Sergei Stanishev, leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party and of the Party of European Socialists, has quit the 42nd National Assembly to take up a seat as a member of […]
