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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on October 29 that incumbent head of state President Rossen Plevneliev will not be the country’s candidate to succeed Kristalina Georgieva as a member […]
The EU has lifted a cap on the Russian gas company’s access to the Opal pipeline in Germany. The agreement paves the way for Moscow to expand its Nord Stream […]
Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva has resigned from the European Commission and will become World Bank chief executive from January 2 2017, the European Commission announced on October 28. Georgieva was in […]
French oil and gas company Total said in its third-quarter earnings report on October 28 that it found oil on Bulgaria’s Black Sea shelf, but gave no further details beyond […]
Bulgaria’s largest parliamentary party GERB and the nationalist Patriotic Front coalition have launched verbal attacks on the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms, saying their […]
A regular poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) found a more negative view of the Bulgarian business climate in October 2016, down by 1.3 percentage points compared with September, […]
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 that […]
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 they have the option […]
Belgian politicians agreed to a deal Thursday to support a free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada after overcoming opposition from one region in Belgium, paving the way […]
