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In what has become practically an annual ritual, Bulgaria’s National Assembly on September 2 again rejected proposals from socialist and nationalist MPs to close the Dossier Commission, the body charged […]
The Building Control Directorate in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv has cancelled a construction permit issued for the 8 Odrin Street former tobacco warehouse, the subject of an allegedly illegal demolition […]
The IT systems serving border checkpoints and traffic police have a “technical problem” which could lead to problems in the process of crossing borders and possible queues, Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry […]
Four United States F-15 tactical fighter aircraft arrived on September 1 at Bulgaria’s Graf Ignatievo air base, about 10km from Plovdiv, to join Bulgarian Air Force MiG-29s in guarding the […]
One of the more disturbing effects of the refugee crisis is the increasing number of unaccompanied minors. As Emanuela Barbiroglio reports from Sofia, the situation in Bulgaria is particularly bad. […]
Kosovo’s government on Thursday withdrew a controversial draft law on a border deal with Montenegro, saying a vote on the measure would be postponed indefinitely. Prime Minister Isa Mustafa told […]
Serbia has declared it will maintain a neutral position toward the controversial Bosnian Serb referendum that has challenged the international community in Bosnia and heightened ethnic tensions more than 20 […]
The leaders’ council of the centre-right coalition Reformist Bloc has proposed naming Traicho Traikov, formerly a minister in Boiko Borissov’s first Cabinet, as the bloc’s candidate in Bulgaria’s November 6 [… ...
A growing number of politicians in Bulgaria want to divert the country from its Euro-Atlantic course of development, President Rossen Plevneliev said on September 1. Plevneliev said that he followed […]
Markovo Tepe Mall, a project in Plovdiv that has seen stops and starts since construction began in 2008, is set to open at the end of October 2016. The project […]
