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Bulgaria’s Cabinet is highly focused on building gas inter-connector pipelines with neighbouring countries, with a special emphasis on the link to Greece, which is part of Sofia’s strategy to diversify […]
A ban on wearing Islamic headscarves at work may be permissible under EU law if the ban is based on a general company rule which prohibits political, ...
The United States state department has warned citizens of what it described as the risk of potential terrorist attacks throughout Europe this summer & ...
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said on May 31 that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first four months of 2016 was 2.35 billion leva, or 2.6 per ...
EU’s anti-fraud office Olaf said in its annual report for 2015 that the re-organisation carried out in 2012 has improved effectiveness “across all areas”, opening 219 new investigations in 2015 […]
The European Commission together with Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft unveiled on May 31 a code of conduct that includes a series of commitments to combat the spread of illegal hate speech […]
Over the past day, Bulgarian Border Police have prevented attempts to cross into the country illegally by a total of 215 migrants, the Interior Ministry said on May 31. The […]
Sixteen people suspected of forgery of documents on a large scale and the smuggling of irregular migrants have been arrested in Greece, and three in the Czech Republic, European police […]
An estimated 204 311 migrants and refugees had arrived in Europe this year via the Mediterranean Sea by May 30, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said. Most, 156 364, […]
Unemployment in Bulgaria was 7.1 per cent in April 2016, down from 10 per cent in April 2015, and remaining below the average unemployment figure for the European Union of […]
