Putin’s party retains power in Sunday’s parliamentary elections
Early election results show Russia’s ruling party has won Sunday’s parliamentary election, amid reports of election violations and visible voter
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Month: September 2016
The Balkan Blog: Greece – living in the shadow of Europe
Until the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the EU, Greece was on its own. Since the 1920s, it had
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Bulgarian deputy interior minister: EC made ‘lightning decision’ on funding aid for border protection
Bulgaria’s deputy interior minister Philip Gounev has described the grant by the European Commission of 160 million euro emerging funding
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NGOs slam Hungarian government over ‘resettlement quota’ referendum
It anyone would poll pedestrians about the quality of a restaurant, they could ask “Do you like this place, where
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IMF raises Bulgaria’s growth forecast for 2016 to 3%
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has praised the resilience of Bulgaria’s economy and described current macroeconomic developments as “encouraging”, raising
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Borissov in Bratislava: Bulgaria needs concrete support for border security
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov showed German chancellor Angela Merkel a map as they held a brief conversation in Bratislava,
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FDI in Bulgaria in January-July 2016 was 987.3M euro
Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first seven months of 2016 stood at 987.3 million euro, the equivalent of
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Wizz Air to resume Sofia-Varna flights in 2017
Low-cost airline Wizz Air said on September 16 that it would resume flights between capital city Sofia and the Black
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Bulgaria’s refugee centres are 93% per cent full
Ninety-three per cent of the capacity of the refugee centres in Bulgaria is filled, State Agency for Refugees head Petya
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