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Do you remember Herman Van Rompuy? You don’t even remember the name? The Belgian was the first president of the European Council. The fact that he served in the post […]
Sofia City Court ruled on December 1 to acquit former MP Hristo Biserov on charges of large-scale tax evasion, breaking the law on currency transactio ...
Terminal 1 of Sofia Airport was closed to passengers on December 1 as explosives specialists checked a foreign-registered van that had been parked nea ...
Courts in Bulgaria and Switzerland have impounded assets worth 603.7 million leva held by Tsvetan Vassilev, the former majority shareholder in the ins ...
A total of 204 Bulgarians had been found to have HIV after a total of 258 000 people were tested in 2015, the Ministry of Health said on December 1, […]
The European Commission announced on December 1 2015 new aid packages in response to the Syrian crisis to help the neighbouring countries of Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Turkey. EU foreign […]
Children make up at least one in five of the 870 000 refugees and migrants who have crossed the Mediterranean Sea so far in 2015, according to the International Organization […]
The traditional annual charity campaign Bulgarian Christmas (Българската Коледа), to raise funds to provide treatment and equipment to care for seriously ill children, was launched on December 1 2015. The […]
Fighting climate change is not only a moral obligation but also presents a sound economic case across the world, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has told the COP21 meeting in Paris. […]
U.S. diplomats and military officials are urging Russia and Turkey to tone down their rhetoric, worried the growing dispute over last week’s downing of a Russian fighter plane near the […]
