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Bulgaria’s Government approved the 2017 Budget bill drafted by the Finance Ministry, holding at a special meeting on October 31, the legal deadline for submitting the bill to the National […]
Monday October 31 finds Bulgaria’s 21 presidential candidates in the final week ahead of what is likely to prove to be just the first-round vote ...
Traffic at Bulgarian border checkpoints including Kapitan Andreevo and Lesovo was blocked for two hours by protesting lorry transport drivers on Octob ...
A total of 589 people have died in road accidents in Bulgaria since the start of 2016, the Interior Ministry said in a daily report on October 31. In ...
Moscow-friendly Socialist Igor Dodon on Sunday garnered nearly 49 percent of the vote in Moldova’s first direct presidential election in decades, according to official preliminary results. Voter turnout was 48.92 […]
Hard to believe, but for the first time in five years, I visited my home country, which is relatively close. My big daughter and I boarded an Air Berlin flight […]
The European Union and Canada signed a long-delayed landmark free trade agreement Sunday in Brussels aimed to boost growth and jobs. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed the Comprehensive and […]
In the week ending on October 30, Bulgaria’s Parliament approved last-minute changes to electoral laws, the government played cut-price Father Christmas by announcing December bonuses for the lowest-income pensioners, Prime […]
In Pernik and Sofia, the last relatively strong earthquake on May 22nd, 2012 is remembered all too well. It happened very early in the morning. Even in Sofia, which was […]
Bulgarian police have arrested two men in connection with illegal dog fighting involving pitbulls in the northern industrial zone of the country’s second city, Plovdiv. A police operation on the […]
