Turkey looks east as EU mulls suspending its membership bid
Turkey’s decades-long bid to join the European Union hangs increasingly in the balance as criticism grows over an ongoing crackdown
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Month: November 2016
Ukrainian billionaire Pinchuk gave Trump $150 000 for 19-minute video call in 2015
For the better part of a year, US President-elect Donald Trump’s slammed his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton for taking large
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Bulgaria’s nationalist Patriotic Front willing to try to form a government
In a move likely to prove no more than Quixotic, Bulgaria’s nationalist Patriotic Front parliamentary group said on November 23
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Five more flights cancelled at Sofia Airport on November 24
The decision of pilots union Vereinigung Cockpit to extend their strike for a second day, on November 24, has prompted
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Bulgaria proposes posthumous state honours for anti-communist guerrilla fighters
Bulgaria’s outgoing government proposed on November 23 that the President confer posthumous state honours on 30 leaders of the Goryani,
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Borissov: Everyone wants to govern but when the time comes, they run like hell
Presiding at the first Cabinet meeting after his government’s resignation was accepted by Parliament, outgoing Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov
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Bulgarian Defence Minister faces criminal charges over MiG-29 deal
Bulgarian prosecutors have lodged criminal charges against Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev in connection with his conduct in concluding a deal
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Bulgaria’s political crisis: Constitutional Court rules on a tale of two presidents
Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court has clarified the respective roles of incumbent President Rossen Plevneliev and president-elect Roumen Radev in dealing with
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‘Washington Group’ to informally discuss Greek debt behind closed doors
According to a report in German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, the Finance Ministers of Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands
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