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European Council President Donald Tusk, speaking during a visit to Bulgarian capital city Sofia, said that the country’s citizens only recently had gained the full right to work in the […]
An estimated 1300 unaccompanied child refugees and migrants are at an increased risk of exploitation, violence and trafficking because of the restrictive border policies and inadequate social protection systems across […]
The leader of Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB party, twice former prime minister Boiko Borissov, has taken personal charge of the team negotiating a possible new government, his party said on April […]
Unemployment in Bulgaria in February 2017 was 6.7 per cent, down from 8.1 per cent in February 2016 and again below the European Union average, EU statistics agency Eurostat said […]
Bulgarian special anti-corruption prosecutors have lodged criminal charges against caretaker Health Minister Ilko Semerdzhiev for allegedly threatening to fire a top official unless he made an appointment Semerdzhiev wanted. The […]
Serbia Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic looked set to sweep a first round presidential election on Sunday, coming in with 56 percent of votes, according to a result projection by the […]
A week after Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 National Assembly elections, the Central Election Commission announced the full list of 240 MPs elected. The list was finalised after taking account of […]
Disaster warning sirens will be tested in 11 Bulgarian cities and towns, as well as in places within a 30km radius around the Kozloduy nuclear power station, on April 3 […]
The number of road deaths in Bulgaria in the first three months of 2017 was lower than in the first quarters of the previous two years, going by a regular […]
