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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov spoke on the phone on September 10 with Serbian counterpart Aleksandar Vučić, discussing the migration crisis in Europe, its impact in the countries of the […]
An Arabic language “Refugee Handbook,” has ranked Bulgaria first among countries asylum seekers should avoid. Refugees have said xenophobi ...
The United States said Thursday it will accept at least 10,000 Syrian refugees in the coming year and increase its humanitarian assistance for those f ...
Czech police have accused two men of attempting to firebomb a bus going between Prague and Varna, Bulgaria, on May 16. The suspects, aged 26 and 29, r ...
What if Jason Bourne was a 20-something stoner? This seems to have been the guiding question for Max Landis, the screenwriter behind American Ultra, which follows the premise of the […]
The Central Election Commission (CEC) has accepted the applications of 78 political parties and three coalitions to stand in Bulgaria’s mayoral and municipal elections on October 2015, the CEC said […]
The European Commission (EC) adopted on September 9 a cross-border co-operation programme for Greece and Bulgaria which has as its first priority boosting the competitiveness of SMEs and helping them […]
The Bulgarian Socialist Party voted on September 10 to expel Georgi Kadiev from its parliamentary group because of his announcement that he would stand for mayor of Sofia in October […]
Prompted by pictures from foreign refugee camps Slovaks spontaneously started to organize themselves with the aim to help migrants staying there. On the other hand, NGOs focused on refugees integration […]
Polish Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz said on Wednesday that Poland was considering raising the number of immigrants the country would be ready to accept, than the initially declared two thousand, […]
