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Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party, winner of the most votes in Bulgaria’s early parliamentary elections and the governing party-presumptive, has turned down the Movement for Rights and Freedoms’ offer of […]
Bulgarian prosecutors have started a pre-trial investigation against Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB) majority shareholder Tsvetan Vassilev, reports in ...
There will be “catastrophic consequences” for Bulgaria’s armed forces if they are not weaned soon from reliance on old Russian milit ...
Bulgaria’s consumer price index (CPI) posted another month of deflation, shrinking by 0.2 per cent in September, which pushed the annual deflation f ...
Bulgaria’s Transport and Communications Ministry said on October 14 that the country has received the approval of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to implement the use […]
The presidential campaign in Romania has hit a new boiling point following accusations made on October 13 by outgoing president Traian Basescu, who broke a month-long silence by saying that […]
Bulgarian capital city Sofia has been named European Capital of Sport 2018, the municipality said on October 14. The decision was taken at a meeting of the evaluation committee of […]
Results in the Bulgarian caretaker cabinet’s campaign against vote-buying appear to have been mixed, with Interior Ministry leadership hinting at political allegiances meaning that investigations in some areas of the […]
A Bulgarian woman and a Moroccan man were seriously assaulted in Sofia after a group overheard the husband saying to his wife “I love you” in English, media reports on […]
Bulgaria’s national football team lost twice in the span of four days to see its chances of qualification to the 2016 European championship final tournament drastically reduced. After losing to […]
