The Rosetta Mission: Learning lessons from a comet
Just a day before Dr Matt Taylor, European Space Agency chief scientist on the Rosetta mission, speaks at the 2016
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Month: May 2016
Richard III: The King’s tale at the Sofia Science Festival
Between Shakespeare and science, what more is there to say about King Richard III? Quite a lot, actually, especially by
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Bulgarian Deputy PM Kalfin resigns, Purvanov’s party poised to quit coalition
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov accepted the resignation of Ivailo Kalfin as Deputy Prime Minister on May 10. Kalfin resigned
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Bulgarian minority party ABC to vote on leaving coalition government
The national council of minority socialist party ABC said on May 10 2016 that it was recommending that the party
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Honorary consuls in Bulgaria challenge loss of diplomatic privileges in court
Nine honorary consuls have filed a complaint with the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) challenging the regulatory changes that stripped them
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Bulgaria foreign trade gap shrinks in Q1 2016
Bulgaria’s foreign trade gap in the first quarter of this year stood at 892.8 million leva, or 456.5 million euro, shrinking from
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Bulgarian consumer confidence improves in April – poll
Bulgaria’s consumer confidence indicator was 1.8 percentage points higher in April than in January, National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on
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UN: Step up efforts to protect migrants, refugees
A new U.N. report expresses concern about rising xenophobia and discrimination against migrants and refugees. “Xenophobic and racist responses to
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Social media rife with myths about European refugee crisis
Modar, a Syrian refugee, arrived in Europe last fall wearing a secondhand shirt he purchased in Damascus for $1. The
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