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He stood for hours in the middle of the train tracks crossing the northern Greek village of Idomeni, just metres from the closed Macedonian border, sometimes with a cigarette dangling […]
Bulgaria will massively cut back the privileges accorded to honorary consuls in the country, stripping them of diplomatic privileges, diplomatic car l ...
Greek authorities said that they are working hard to set up three new welcome centres for refugees in the area of Ioannina, a city on the border with ...
Bulgarian MPs passed at first reading on March 16 amendments to the country’s Judiciary Act, which reflect the changes in the constitution, adop ...
The former majority shareholder in Bulgaria’s insolvent Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), Tsvetan Vassilev, has filed an application to receive Serbian citizenship, public broadcaster Bulgarian National Television (BNT) said on March [ ...
Bulgaria’s Cabinet agreed on March 16 2016 to ask the National Assembly to ratify a contribution of 5.9 million euro over three years towards three billion euro EU assistance to […]
Bulgaria’s Cabinet has appointed Petya Purvanova, who had been interior minister in the 2013 Raykov caretaker cabinet, as the new head of the State Agency for Refugees. The Cabinet decision […]
Sofia city council has embarked on penalising owners, including the ministries of health and of justice and the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod, who have neglected buildings that are officially […]
A new proposal for the future of the “Tobacco Town” warehouse in Plovdiv – at the centre of a major row over an attempt to demolish it – has been […]
Two days before the next refugee summit between the EU and Turkey, it is far from certain that a deal will be struck. EU member Cyprus, which is not recognized […]
