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Additional reservists will be called up to reinforce servicemen fighting Kremlin-backed mercenaries and their proxies in eastern Ukraine after parliament on July 22 passed a bill on “partial military mobilization.” […]
The European Union moved Tuesday to toughen and widen sanctions against Russia amid anger over the downing of a Malaysia Airlines plane in rebel-held ...
European Union foreign ministers agreed at a July 22 meeting, five days since the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17, to accelerate the preparat ...
The fifth consecutive annual Sofia Breathes festival is being held in five streets in the Bulgarian capital city on the five Sundays in August 2014. C ...
Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) governor Ivan Iskrov said on July 22 that he was ready to submit his resignation if the country’s lawmakers were prepared to swiftly designate a successor […]
European Union foreign ministers, meeting in Brussels on July 22, approved the establishment of a mission to advise on civilian security sector reform in Ukraine, a statement from the council […]
After a number of senior political figures linked to Bulgaria’s ruling axis indicated that they expected that the government would resign on July 23, Bulgarian Socialist Party parliamentary group head […]
Bulgaria’s new Consumer Loans Act, approved by Parliament on March 28, came into effect on July 22 2014, capping loan interest rates and required banks to print the entirety of […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev is among heads of state from Nato countries in Central and Eastern Europe attending talks in Warsaw on July 22 to co-ordinate policy positions ahead of […]
The building of a fence at the border between Bulgaria and Turkey has been completed, Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry said, in the latest development in the saga of the controversial and […]
