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The sixth annual Mindya Rock Fest is to be held in the Veliko Turnovo region village, on the northern slopes of the Stara Planina mountains, from August 28 to 30 […]
Talks between Bulgaria’s largest political parties, hosted by President Rossen Plevneliev on August 1, have failed to break the deadlock in Parliame ...
Bulgaria’s outgoing economy minister Dragomir Stoynev said on August 1 that the controversial decision to sell state land to the South Stream projec ...
US nuclear firm Westinghouse Electric said on August 1 that it has signed a shareholder agreement to build a new reactor at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nucl ...
A 25-year-old man died in a Vratsa village as a result of floods as several hours of heavy rain deluged parts of central and western Bulgaria overnight from July 31 […]
With Jean-Claude Juncker’s European Commission due to take office in November 2014, the 28 EU member countries are in the process of nominating their European Commissioners, who will face confirmation […]
Bulgaria’s Protest Network, the group that arose out of protests demanding the resignation of the now-outgoing government, has alleged that Bulgaria Without Censorship leader Nikolai Barekov broke political party funding […]
Agriculture Minister Marek Sawicki has appealed to the European Commission to compensate Poland after Russia decided to ban Polish fruit and vegetable imports, officials in Warsaw said Thursday. The Polish […]
The European Union on July 29 agreed to more severe sanctions against Russia in response to its continued promotion of instability in eastern Ukraine. The U.S. quickly followed suit with […]
The European Union has sanctioned five Russian banks to protest Moscow’s intervention in restive eastern Ukraine. The EU said it is limiting the banks’ access to European capital markets, which […]
