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Meeting his Azjerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has voiced hope that supplies of natural gas of a billion cubic metres a year negotiated with Azerbaijan will start […]
Greek bonds strengthened on April 28 2015 on hopes that a deal between Greece and its creditors can be reached before the country runs out of money. The yields on two-year […]
The United States has condemned the April 27 attack on a police station in Bosnia that left a police officer dead. In a State Department briefing, the U.S. called on […]
Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on April 28 that no changes to his cabinet were required, a comment coming a few days after a call from a minority coalition partner […]
The head of Bulgaria’s Border Police, Milen Penev, has been demoted, public broadcaster Bulgarian National Radio said on April 28. Penev has been in the post since February 23 2015, […]
Full-scale war can flare up instantly, Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko warned at the International Support for Ukraine conference in Kyiv on April 28. “The threat of war is still hanging […]
Bulgaria’s National Audit Office is to investigate the income declared to be from membership fees of Volen Siderov’s ultra-nationalist minority party Ataka. In 2014, Ataka – which, like all other […]
A total of 25 Bulgarian Customs Agency employees at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint with Turkey are being fired, with 19 due to be handed formal dismissal notices on April […]
The Bulgarian Red Cross has launched a fundraising campaign to assist people hard-hit by the earthquake in Nepal, which as of April 28 is reported to have resulted in more […]
The Greek government is at a difficult point of the negotiations with its lenders but it has nothing to hide and it is not bluffing, prime minister Alexis Tsipras said […]
