A trilateral Bulgarian-Greek-Turkish contact centre opened at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint on November 25 2016, the culmination of five years’ work to produce it. The opening ceremony of the […]
Visiting Bulgaria’s Harmanli refugee camp for the second time in less than 24 hours, following violent clashes at the camp that led to hundreds ...
The violent clashes between people locked down in Bulgaria’s Harmanli refugee centre and police prompted a political storm, with Parliament̵ ...
Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on November 25 to approve the second reading of amendments to the Defence and Armed Forces Act that increase the ret ...
The situation at Bulgaria’s Harmanli refugee camp has normalised, while 110 people at the camp who had taken part in riots on November 24 had been detained, Interior Minister Roumyana […]
The Military Prosecutor’s Office in Sofia has laid criminal charges of abuse of office against Nikolai Nenchev, Defence Minister in Boiko Borissov’s outgoing Cabinet, in connection with a contract in […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov called an emergency meeting on November 25 of key Cabinet ministers and security chiefs in response to the unrest at the Harmanli refugee camp that […]
Great hopes for a better future drove the wave of demonstrations that swept Ukraine starting in November 2013 – demonstrations that ultimately swept corrupt former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and […]
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boiko Borissov made a late-night visit to Bulgaria’s Harmanli refugee camp on November 24, when more than 200 arrests were reported as about 2000 residents clashed with […]