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In central Sofia, it is not only the glow-in-the-dark eyes of the statue of Tsar Samuil that illuminate the night – so do the displays of smartphones and cameras as […]
Bulgarian police protesting against changes to the retirement age and against their working conditions put up a tent and a bivouac – meant to repres ...
Bollywood star actor, producer and director Ajay Devgan is to star in a video to promote Bulgarian tourism, to be broadcast in the Indian market, Bulg ...
The Albena company is to invest more than 130 million leva (about 66.4 million euro) in upgrading the Bulgarian Black Sea resort over the next five ye ...
Food supplies to the Bulgarian army are to stop on June 15 because the Ministry of Defence has not extended the contract for supplies, against a background of months of […]
Credit ratings agency Standard&Poor’s has said that it affirmed Bulgaria’s credit rating at BB+, one notch below investment grade, with a stable outlook. This was the third ratings decision by […]
The Party of European Socialists congress in Budapest re-elected Sergei Stanishev as the EU-level party’s leader after rival candidate, Spain’s Enrique Baron Crespo, withdrew from the race. Reports said that […]
The United States is considering storing heavy military weaponry and equipment in several Baltic and Eastern European countries, officials said Saturday. The proposal is said to send a strong message […]
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban threatened that his government would close the border with Serbia in order to stop the flow of immigrants, Serbian media said on June 12. Orban said […]
Southern Europe’s migrant and refugee crisis has reached the Western Balkans where an increasing number of asylum-seekers are using the region’s migration routes to flee their home countries, the United […]
