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The Balkan countries are a transit route for thousands of refugees, mostly Syrians, who are fleeing violence and trying to find a better life in the economically advanced countries of […]
EU leaders met in Brussels on Thursday to discuss plans to help deal with the ongoing influx of refugees from the Middle East, urging Turkey in partic ...
Heads of state and government from European Union countries gathered in Brussels Thursday for a summit dominated by the war in Syria and the migrant s ...
Slovakia is acting in line with the requests of the European Union, while still preparing a lawsuit concerning the mandatory quotas for the redistri ...
Sofia Independent Film Festival returns for its sixth edition on October 22 and will feature a by now familiar mixture of documentary and feature films from the international film festivals […]
The Governments of Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, the European Commission, have reached an agreement that will allow the construction of the Gas Interconnector Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) by December 2019. The […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has vetoed the law on military intelligence, specifically the provisions that require the head of the Military Intelligence to be a senior military officer on active […]
Bulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on October 15 that it would investigate a complaint lodged by an oil and gas industry association, which claimed that the centralised excise duties database of the […]
Iliana Tsanova, who served as deputy prime minister in charge of EU funds in two Bulgarian caretaker governments in 2013 and 2014, has been confirmed as deputy managing director of […]
Poland does not need permission from Russia to modernise the Bulgarian Air Force’s MiG-29 jet fighters because it is a matter of extending the flight resource of engines rather than […]
