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The Republic of Macedonia’s governing coalition parties, VMRO-DPMNE and BDI (Democratic Union for Integration), voted in parliament on May 18 to postpone the June 5 elections, as the Constitutional Court had […]
Condemning the National Assembly’s rejection of his veto of election law amendments on voting abroad as “the latest occasion that legislat ...
The prolonged political farce over Bulgaria’s election law continued on May 18 with the ruling majority, having just overturned a presidential v ...
Caving into a threat from the nationalist Patriotic Front to withdraw its support from Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s government unless Preside ...
Twenty-one people from Syria were found concealed in a train travelling from Turkey to Germany when it stopped at the railway station in the Bulgarian town of Nova Zagora, Bulgaria’s […]
Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first three months of 2016 stood at 371.3 million euro, the equivalent of 0.8 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP), statistics from […]
The first day of a three-day meeting of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body the Holy Synod, due to discuss the fate of controversial Archimandrite Dionisii, was cancelled because of […]
The Constitutional Court in the Republic of Macedonia decided on May 18 to evaluate whether the decision for the dissolution of Parliament on February 23 was constitutional or not. Besides this, all […]
Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted on May 18 to approve Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s nomination of Zornitsa Rusinova as Minister of Labour and Social Policy, replacing former deputy prime minister Ivailo […]
