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Kristalina Georgieva has finally convinced her prime minister she stands the best chance to be UN secretary-general. Max Hofmann and Barbara Wesel think the EU Vice President from Bulgaria might […]
EU Migration Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos on Wednesday said some 30 000 refugees in Greece will be relocated throughout the EU by next year, claiming that the 28-nation bloc has made […]
International investigators say a Malaysian airliner that crashed over eastern Ukraine in July 2014 was shot down by a missile that was transported into the country from Russia. The findings […]
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, said on September 28 that it had unanimously decided to dismiss Stara Zagora Metropolitan Galaktion on the grounds of severe ill […]
European Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva has described the Bulgarian government’s decision to nominate her as its candidate in the race to be United Nations Secretary-General as a great honour. “I […]
European Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva will take unpaid leave from the Commission during October 2016 after Bulgaria’s government named her as its new candidate for the post of United Nations […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has called on all Bulgarian politicians to rise above party interests and personal biases to back the Cabinet’s September 28 decision to nominate Kristalina Georgieva instead […]
The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party has described as a “disgrace” the September 28 decision by the Bulgarian government to transfer its support from Irina Bokova to Kristalina Georgieva in the […]
Bulgaria’s Parliament passed at second reading on September 28 a bill authorising a cash injection from the state Budget to the state-owned electric utility NEK to pay the damages awarded by […]
The Bulgarian government is nominating its European Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva for the post of United Nations Secretary-General, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said as the Cabinet met on September 28. […]
