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Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv has been named as European Capital of Culture 2019. The announcement was made at a special news conference at the culture ministry in Sofia on September 5 […]
Photographs of scenes from Plovdiv, named on September 5 2014 as an international jury’s recommendation for European Capital of Culture 2019. (A ...
The European Commission has ordered Bulgarian authorities to recover incompatible state aid from companies that benefitted from controversial land swo ...
NATO leaders have approved sending military equipment to Eastern Europe as a potential deterrent to further aggressive moves by Russia, and they also ...
Two municipalities in the Montana district, in north-western Bulgaria, declared a state of emergency on September 5 after flooding caused by heavy rainfall in the early hours of the morning. […]
September 5 sees the start of the official campaign period in the run-up to Bulgaria’s ahead-of-term national parliamentary elections on October 5. Seven coalitions and 18 parties are standing in […]
Three musicians formerly with Whitesnake will perform as Steamroller at Sofia Live Club on September 7 2014, belting out a repertoire of classic rock songs. The musicians are guitarist Doug […]
A deteriorating economic situation across Central Europe combined in 2013 with an increasingly uncertain geopolitical situation to drive revenue stagnation for many of the region’s largest companies. For the third […]
Senior members of the ruling Civic Platform (PO) Wednesday said parliamentary Speaker Ewa Kopacz was their choice to replace Donald Tusk as prime minister when he heads off to Brussels […]
Ukraine was high on the agenda when the NATO summit started in Wales on September 4, with leaders of the 28-nation alliance looking for ways to bolster Ukraine and punish […]
