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A regular monthly poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) has found a slight improvement in November 2016, resulting from more optimistic opinions among managers in the industry and retail […]
Nineteen foreign citizens face criminal charges, mainly for hooliganism, after the unrest at the refugee centre in the southern Bulgarian town of Harmanli, Prosecutor’s Office spokesperson Roumyana Arnaudova said on […]
Roumen Radev, elected to take over as Bulgaria’s President in January 2017, attended a November 26 meeting of the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party’s national council, praising party leader Kornelia Ninova […]
Bulgarian President-elect Roumen Radev has called for more urgent measures for extradition and more EU assistance, following the November 24 violent clashes at the Harmanli refugee camp. Radev was speaking […]
Flights by German carrier Lufthansa to and from Sofia Airport were operating normally on November 26 after being cancelled the previous three days because of a pilots’ union strike. Flights […]
The violent clashes between people housed at the Harmanli refugee reception centre and police were discussed at a meeting between Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov and the chargé d’affaires of […]
“I wake up and I always find a long queue in front of the boys’ toilets. They think that with bathing we can get rid of the infections,” Taleeb tells […]
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 of arrests and injuries to refugees […]
The violent clashes between people locked down in Bulgaria’s Harmanli refugee centre and police prompted a political storm, with Parliament’s largest party urging others not to use inflammatory rhetoric while […]
