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Bulgaria’s Competition Protection Commission (CPC) has rejected a claim by a candidate that bid for the Plovdiv Airport concession but was disqualified by the Transport Ministry, which said that the […]
Great mobility is being noted recently on behalf of Greece towards the Balkan countries, with successive summits at bilateral and trilateral level being organized. If one considers that the first […]
Heart diseases and strokes were the cause of two-thirds of all deaths in Bulgaria (66 per cent), the highest proportion for this cause of death among all European Union countries, […]
The EU’s executive has unveiled plans to resettle at least 50 000 refugees, focusing on people from northern Africa, to bypass smugglers. Europe is struggling to distribute thousands of migrants […]
Europe’s international law enforcement agency said Wednesday ransomware outpaced all other forms of cybercrime in 2017, making it the most dangerous current online threat. “The last year has been exceptional, […]
The European Commission said on September 27 that it was calling on the European Council “to take the decision fully integrating Bulgaria and Romania into the Schengen area, with Croatia becoming a full member […]
More than 10.6 million foreigners visited Bulgaria in 2016, an increase of 24.3 per cent compared with 2008, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said in a report released to coincide […]
A few days after a federal election in Germany, Athens is contemplating repercussions on the country. So far, under the Merkel chancellorship, Berlin’s policy on Greece involved putting the country […]
The Bulgarian government is launching a project with the World Bank as consultant to reduce the bloated public service administration by merging departments with the same functions. The concept envisages […]
Six months after Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 early parliamentary elections, the picture of support for major political parties is largely unchanged and elections now would produce a similar Parliament, going […]
