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Bulgaria’s competition regulator said on December 21 that it found energy groups CEZ and EVN guilty of using unfair trade practices, issuing fines worth a total six million leva, or […]
Bulgaria’s plans to build two new Navy patrol ships have suffered a setback on December 20, when Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov announced that the only bidder for the 820 million […]
Bulgarian MPs adopted on December 20 a new law that will set up a single body to oversee the fight against corruption, but critics of the bill say that its […]
Bulgaria’s opposition parties scored a rare victory on December 20, when the country’s ruling coalition agreed to amend the 2018 Budget of the National Health Insurance Fund to strike a […]
After nine unsuccessful attempts dating back to September 2016, Bulgaria’s Special Criminal Court finally held the first hearing, on December 19, in the trial of two accused of involvement in […]
Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first 10 months of the year stood at 855.5 million euro, the equivalent of 1.7 per cent of the gross domestic product, statistics […]
Slovenian police have arrested 11 people, dismantling an international crime syndicate involved in sports corruption and illegal betting, with the assistance of Croatian police and Europol, Europe’s international law enforcement [… ...
The holy synod of the Church of Greece has expressed concern about the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s decision to hold talks with other Orthodox churches on the status of the Macedonian […]
Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov was voted 2017 sportsperson of the year by journalists from 10 Balkan countries, Bulgaria’s state news agency BTA said on December 18. Dimitrov, who ended the year […]
A senior official in Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency was shot in Sofia on December 18 and was in critical state, reports in Bulgarian media said. Ivailo Stamenov Tsvetkov, 43, the […]
