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Former interior minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos was elected the new President of Greece on February 18 2015. Prokopis Pavlopoulos, the candidate nominated by the ruling Syriza party and prime minister Alexis Tsipras’ […]
Traffic police in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv have issued speeding fines to 10 ambulances transporting patients in critical condition in the ...
Voting by Bulgaria’s Parliament on ratification of the country incurring new external debt of eight billion euro over the next three years was p ...
A protest is to be held in Sofia on February 21 2015 calling for the “termination of the Kremlin’s information aggression in Bulgaria,R ...
Bulgaria’s cabinet agreed on February 18 to provide additional firewood to police on duty at border areas where there are high levels of illegal migration. The decision was taken after […]
Vinaria, the largest wine exhibition on the Balkans, is to be held in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv for the 23rd year from March 4 to 8 2015, with new attractions […]
Ukraine’s president said his government’s forces are pulling out of the contested eastern Ukrainian town of Debaltseve, which has been under siege by pro-Russian rebels and where fighting has continued […]
The interdepartmental commission investigating the ski zone in Bansko, where there is continuing controversy about plans for expanded ski facilities and a second cableway, has delayed its findings by 10 […]
Bulgaria’s Health Ministry has no intention of easing the ban on smoking indoors in public places, nor of widening anti-smoking laws, but is working on legislative changes to make the […]
