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The summer season at Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast “starts today”, public broadcaster Bulgarian National Radio said on March 30 2017, with the arrival of a charter flight at Bourgas Airport. […]
For the second time in less than five years, the Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) ended an investigation into allegations of a price-fixing cartel on the fuel distribution market […]
In spite of repeated insistence by GERB leader Boiko Borissov and Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova that they will not bring their two parties – the largest in the country […]
Germany was Bulgaria’s number one trading partner in exports and imports in 2016, according to figures released by EU statistics agency Eurostat on March 29 2017. Germany accounted for 14 […]
A regular monthly survey of the business climate in Bulgaria by the National Statistical Institute (NSI) saw an increase of 2.9 percentage points in March compared with February, due to […]
For the third time, Bulgaria’s Special Criminal Court has not proceeded with the trial of two accused of involvement in the July 2012 terrorist attack at Bourgas Airport that left […]
Bulgaria had the highest road fatality rate of any European Union country in 2016, according to figures released by the European Commission. The road fatality rate in Bulgaria in 2016 […]
The EU has dodged a bullet in the Bulgarian elections with the victory of former prime minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party. For much of the campaign it looked like this small […]
The aftermath of the results of Bulgaria’s March 26 parliamentary elections is seeing a predictable round of recriminations, while among those who lost, some leaders are resigning and others determinedly […]
The ambassadors to Bulgaria of 12 EU member states released a joint statement on March 28, in response to a string of recent publications in Bulgarian media, critical of the […]
