Bulgaria competition watchdog opens retail trade cartel investigation
Bulgaria’s Commission on Protection of Competition (CPC) has opened an investigation into whether four foreign-owned retail chains were acting in
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Month: May 2016
Bulgarian far-right Ataka MP gets two years probation for hooliganism
Sofia City Court sentenced Dessislav Chukolov, an MP for Volen Siderov’s far-right Ataka minority opposition party, to two years’ probation,
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Eurogroup arrives at ‘major breakthrough’ on Greece
The Eurogroup approved the disbursement of 10.3 billion euro in bailout loans to Greece, in the early hours of May
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Migrants brave illegal means of travel as Greece demolishes border camp
Greek authorities are busing thousands of migrants away from the makeshift camp at Idomeni on the Macedonian border, and to
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PM says Poland ready to offer solutions to constitutional crisis
The Polish government will propose solutions aimed at solving the months-long crisis over the Constitutional Tribunal, PM Beata Szydlo said
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Bulgaria celebrates Day of Cyrillic script, Slavonic literature
With church services, parades of academics and school pupils and speeches by state and government leaders, Bulgaria joined in enthusiastic
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1370 migrant and refugee deaths in Med so far in 2016 – IOM
A total of 1370 migrants and refugees had died on Mediterranean routes to Europe by May 21 2016, a figure
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Greece: Evacuation of Idomeni refugee ‘camp’ begins
Greek authorities began the evacuation of the informal refugee camp in Idomeni at dawn Tuesday. At least four hundred police
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Billy Bunter and the Brexit
Watching the Brexit circus from a safe distance in Greece, I can’t help feeling that I have seen it all
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