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Cash-strapped Greece – cut off from further infusions of European funds – ordered its banks and stock market closed for six days beginning Monday, June 29, as the country’s financial […]
The European Central Bank said Sunday it is keeping its emergency credit lines open to Greek banks even as Greek depositors are standing in long lines at automated teller machines […]
The Greek Parliament voted late Saturday to accept Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ call for a referendum July 5 on proposed reforms needed to get bailout funds. Tsipras issued a defiant […]
Greece’s prime minister has called for a referendum on the outcome of bailout talks with international creditors. Prime minister Alexis Tsipras announced the surprise move in a televised address early […]
European Union leaders have agreed that 40 000 migrants who have arrived in Italy and Greece will be relocated to other EU countries over the next two years, but Hungary […]
Anti-Semitic rhetoric continued to appear commonly on social networking sites and as comments under online media articles in Bulgaria in 2014, the US state department said on June 25 2015 […]
Concerns persist about deterioration of the media environment in Bulgaria because of corporate and political pressure that, combined with the growing and nontransparent concentration of media ownership and distribution networks, […]
Bulgaria and Greece have presented their cases to the European Commission in a tax dispute case threatening to strain cross-border transactions between the two neighbours, which the Commission is expected […]
The champion in cruise revenue in 2014 was Italy with 4601 million euro, followed by Germany with 3254 million euro, the UK with 3155 million euro, Spain with 1208 million […]
Leaders of the European Council, France and Germany say the issue of Greek debt must be settled at a crucial meeting of eurozone finance ministers Saturday, after talks Thursday ended […]
