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About 11 per cent of Bulgarians who are working are self-employed, according to figures released on September 6 by EU statistics agency Eurostat. Eurostat said that 30.6 million people aged […]
Bulgarian Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov has ordered a check following reports about an “Azerbaijani laundromat”, allegedly involving a $3 billion money-laundering and lobbying scheme, in which Bulgarian representative on th ...
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) has struck down a challenge from Hungary and Slovakia over the bloc’s mandatory refugee quota policy. The ruling is a victory for Brussels, Paris […]
Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev conferred the country’s highest state honour, the Stara Planina First Class, on the ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta, Camillo Zuccoli. The […]
This past summer, thousands of European Union citizens again experienced serious obstacles because of corruption in Bulgaria, being forced to pay off border police and fraudulent fines to traffic police, […]
Bulgaria’s economy grew by one per cent in the second quarter of the year, according to preliminary data announced by the National Statistical Institute (NSI) on September 5, exceeding last month’s […]
It was the story to make the most jaded journalist sit up and take notice, to say nothing of the effect on stoners, as public radio in Bulgaria reported on […]
Bulgarian Defence Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Krassimir Karakachanov has called for the army to be included in protecting public order jointly with the police. “I put the question, does […]
The treaty of friendship, good neighbourliness and co-operation between Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia is important not only for those two countries but also for the whole region, according […]
Greek and Bulgarian Prime Ministers Alexis Tsipras and Boiko Borissov will sign in Kavala on September 6 a bilateral agreement to speed up the planned construction of a railway network that […]
