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Cyprus and Greece are the countries with which Israel should promote alliances. This position is recorded in the new defense doctrine of Israel, which diversifies taking into consideration the energy […]
Energy Minister of Cyprus George Lakkotrypis announced that before the end of summer, exploratory drilling will start in the Onasagoras area, located in block 9 of the Cypriot EEZ. He […]
At its last meeting before a caretaker cabinet is appointed to take Bulgaria into early parliamentary elections on October 5, the outgoing “Oresharski” cabinet listed what it claimed were its […]
Bulgaria’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), the third-largest party in the National Assembly, declined on July 30 2014 head of state President Rossen Plevneliev’s offer of a mandate to […]
US energy firm Westinghouse remains optimistic about the prospects of signing the contract to build a nuclear reactor in Bulgaria, despite the decision by the outgoing administration of Plamen Oresharski […]
Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) has fined the state gas utility Bulgargaz a record 23.4 million leva (about 11.95 million euro) for abusing its dominant market position. In […]
Boiko Borissov, leader of Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB party, said on July 30 that his party would no longer attend Parliament – which has just a few days before it is […]
Bulgaria’s National Association of Road Carriers says it will blockade road exits from Sofia on the afternoon of August 1, peak time for traffic quitting the capital city for summer […]
The European Union has agreed a package of what it calls “significant” additional restrictive measures targeting sectoral co-operation and exchanges with Russia, in response to Moscow’s actions in Ukraine. Agreed [… ...
Bulgarian MPs passed at first reading on July 29 the revision of the National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF) budget, approving the allocation of 225 million leva, mainly to cover the […]
