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Bulgaria’s foray onto foreign financial markets has proven a successful one, with its 1.493 billion euro bond issue placed at an interest rate of just over three per cent, reports […]
In a vote of 171 in favour, three against and with five abstentions, Bulgaria’s National Assembly agreed on June 27 to accept Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev’s resignation as […]
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called on Russia Thursday to support his peace plan for eastern Ukraine with “actions, not words,” accusing Moscow of “aggression.” Speaking before the Parliamentary Assembly of [&hel ...
A resident of the Black Sea city of Varna won the 5.03 million leva (about 2.57 million euro) jackpot in the second draw of the 6 of 49 game of […]
Despite political tensions over the selection of the European Commission’s next leader, regional heads of state are in Ypres, Belgium, to mark a century since the start of the First […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin is pushing back against Western opposition to his country’s planned South Stream pipeline that would allow Moscow to ship natural gas to European countries without going […]
The European Union will sign association agreements on June 27 with three countries in its Eastern Partnership – Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia – only seven months after the Vilnius summit that […]
The new European Parliament, to hold its first sitting on July 1 to 3 2014, will have seven political groups, with the centre-right European People’s Party again the largest – […]
As part of celebrations of the 20th anniversary of diplomatic relations between the Sovereign Order of Malta and Bulgaria, the Order donated a fully-equipped ambulance to the town of Satovcha […]
Bulgaria’s state-owned electricity utility NEK has amassed 2.9 billion leva (about 1.48 billion euro) in debt, the head of Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) Boyan Boev said […]
