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Bulgaria has urged the European Commission to work on an alternative plan in case Turkey fulfills its threat to unleash a refugee flow to Europe, Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov said […]
Close to 35 per cent of Bulgarians smoke, the highest rate in the European Union – higher than in Greece, formerly the EU’s heaviest-smoki ...
Plovdiv District Court began on December 7 the trial of a homeless man, Lyubomir Danchev, on charges of criminal negligence in connection with the Aug ...
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev will offer the third and final exploratory mandate to try to form a government to the centre-right Reformist Blo ...
Following Monday’s Eurogroup decision to grant Greece short term debt relief, the country’s government expressed its determination to fend off demands for additional austerity measures in order to conclude the […]
Oscar-winning Polish-born filmmaker Roman Polanski will not be extradited if he travels to Poland, the country’s Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday rejecting the chief prosecutor and justice minister, Zbigniew Ziobro’s […]
When Bulgaria’s Minister of Tourism, Nikolina Angelkova, started spreading truly exciting numbers at several press conferences in the summer of 2016, it became clear that this year would most likely […]
The latest PISA survey, conducted by the OSCE, has again revealed huge problems in the Bulgarian education system. It showed that Bulgarian students in ninth grade are lagging behind substantially […]
