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The European Commission said on May 28 that it has asked 11 EU member states, Bulgaria among them, to fully implement the provisions of the bank recovery and resolution directive. […]
Sponsors are calling for football’s governing body Fifa to make changes while its regional federations debate the future of its often-criticized leader after the United States and Switzerland unveiled major […]
Bulgaria supports the idea of the European Union sending a special envoy to Macedonia to resolve the political crisis in the country, Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov said in a May […]
Opinions among executives in Bulgaria about the country’s business climate improved in May 2015, the fifth consecutive month of increased optimism, according to the findings of a survey released by […]
An expose by a Bulgarian television show about taxi drivers hugely overcharging foreigners led to a bust-up on breakfast television with the taxi company owner accusing the station of lies […]
Bulgaria’s Parliament passed at second reading amendments to the Penal Procedure Code meant to impose tighter restrictions on criminal case defendants to prevent them from fleeing the country. The changes […]
State institutions and prosecutors should be completely free to take action against politicians who use hate speech, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said in a comment on the situation in Garmen, […]
The Greek government on Wednesday said it is starting to draft an agreement with creditors that would pave the way for much-needed aid to reach the country. Negotiators from Greece […]
The system for quotas for transferring migrants proposed by the European Commission (EC) envisages moving a total of 788 refugees from Greece and Italy to Bulgaria within the next two […]
Square 500, the gallery complex in Sofia commonly known in recent years as the “Bulgarian Louvre”, is to officially open on May 28 2015. The complex, which links the buildings […]
