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Despite having been part of the European Union for nearly a decade, tackling high-level corruption remains one of Bulgaria’s “biggest challenges,” the European Commission pointed out in a progress report […]
Clocks in Bulgaria change to winter time at 4am on October 30 2016, going back an hour to 3am. This signals the end of the annual Daylight Saving Time ...
More than six million Bulgarians inside the country and abroad are being called to the polls in November 2016 to choose a new president – though ...
Belgian politicians agreed to a deal Thursday to support a free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada after overcoming opposition from ...
The president of human rights group the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Krassimir Kanev, was assaulted by two men on the morning of October 27 outside a central Sofia hotel, the committee […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on October 27 that he would not veto the last-minute changes to the Electoral Code approved by Parliament the previous day, but would act to […]
One of the busiest thoroughfares in Bulgaria’s capital city of Sofia, Tsarigradsko Chaussee boulevard, will be shut down for the entire day on October 29, for a concert by television […]
Police in Germany have raided two brothels and 10 more “objects” in Berlin. With the operation, prosecutors in the German capital have stepped up their fight against human trafficking, the victims […]
