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Bulgaria’s cabinet agreed at a regular meeting on November 30 to pay Australian murder convict Jock Palfreeman 3500 euro following a decision by the European Court of Human Rights that […]
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first 10 months of 2016 was 3.44 billion leva, or 3.9 per cent of this ...
The parliamentary group of Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party decided on November 30 that it would not support any attempt to form a gover ...
Bulgaria’s nationalist parliamentary group the Patriotic Front has begun behind-the-scenes talks on attempting to form a government, should Pres ...
Bulgaria’s Cabinet, meeting on November 30, has approved proposed legislative changes that would abolish the practice of decreeing a Saturday a “working day” in return for declaring special public holidays […]
Sixty-eight per cent of Bulgarians want a caretaker government appointed and early parliamentary elections called, according to a poll by the Alpha Research agency, carried out for public broadcaster Bulgarian […]
A November 29 meeting of Bulgaria’s Consultative Council for National Security, convened by President Rossen Plevneliev, has left in place a slim possibility that a new government could be formed […]
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, has formally rejected the Pan-Orthodox Council and its conclusions, it emerged from an announcement in Sofia on November 29. The Bulgarian Orthodox […]
On Monday, Montenegro’s parliament approved a new cabinet led by a former intelligence chief who vowed to pursue the tiny Balkan nation’s EU and NATO membership bids. Dusko Markovic’s new […]
A newly-found inscription has shown that the Ancient Theatre in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv, long thought to date back to about the year 116 CE, is in fact older – […]
