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Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry advised motorists on January 31 to avoid the Kulata – Promachonas border crossing after protesting Greek farmers blocked the checkpoint for about an hour. Motorists should use […]
Protesting Greek farmers blocked the E-79 main road close to the Promachonas – Kulata border checkpoint with Bulgaria, public broadcaster Bulgar ...
The increase of the defensive deterrence posture of Nato should go hand-in-hand with deepening political dialogue with Russia, to avoid confrontation ...
Unemployment in Bulgaria in December 2016 was 7.1 per cent, unchanged from November 2016 and down from the 7.9 per cent recorded in December 2015, EU ...
Five hundred refugees were evacuated from Bulgaria’s Harmanli refugee centre because of a fire, Bulgarian National Radio said on January 31. The fire broke out in a hall just after […]
The leader of SDSM (Macedonian Social Democratic Union), Zoran Zaev has requested a mandate from president George Ivanov to form the new government in the Republic of Macedonia. This came a […]
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev, in Brussels on January 30 for his first official visit abroad as head of state, has called for a new operational plan to address illegal migration. […]
Sofia City Court approved on January 30 the registration of Hristo Ivanov’s Yes Bulgaria (Да, България!) as a political party. The application was lodged by Ivanov, a former justice minister […]
Bulgaria’s caretaker Cabinet, at its first meeting on January 30, approved a budget of 29.9 million leva (about 15.3 million euro) for the early parliamentary elections to be held on […]
At the first meeting of his Cabinet, held on January 30, Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister Ognyan Gerdzhikov gave his ministers two weeks to carry out a full review of each […]
