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Tensions are rising in Idomeni with more than 7000 refugees – mainly from Syria and Iraq – trapped between Greece and Macedonia. When refugees hurled stones and broke a fence, […]
Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev said that a March 1 2016 meeting of the Defence Council would discuss and accept a project proposal for the ...
Ukraine is to submit a request to Bulgaria for the extradition of Bulgarian citizen Georgi Bliznakov, currently in custody facing charges because of a ...
A regular poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute has found that in February 2016, the total business climate indicator increased by 0.5 p ...
In an operation against illegal migration, Bulgarian police detained 27 people found travelling on a goods train en route from Turkey to Austria, the Interior Ministry said on February 29. […]
All checkpoints at the border with Greece are operating normally, Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry said on the morning February 29 2016, in a statement that coincided with an ultimatum by a […]
Vanyo Tanov, chief of the Bulgarian Customs Agency, died on February 29 2016 at the age of 58. Public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television reported that Tanov had felt ill and […]
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias has strongly criticised Vienna’s stance towards Greece, and in particular that of Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Miklos-Laitner for her constant accusations against Athens. In an […]
“I no longer understand the policy of the Greeks. Greece cannot act as a travel agency and send all the refugees elsewhere. Greece received last year 11 000 refugees, while […]
Some 25 000 people rallied in Gdansk on Sunday to voice their support for the former president and the hero of anti-communist movement Solidarity Lech Walesa, who has recently faced […]
