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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s party GERB, the senior partner in the governing coalition, plans to seek a ruling from the country’s Constitutional Court whether provisions from the Istanbul Convention […]
Unemployment in Bulgarian in December 2017 was 6.1 per cent, down from 6.7 per cent in December 2016 and again below the average for the European Unio ...
Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court ruled on January 30 that the National Assembly acted unconstitutionally in rejecting the resignation of MP Delya ...
Schools have been closed in Bulgaria’s largest Black Sea city Varna, Rousse on the Danube, and in four other districts in Bulgaria on January 30 ...
Romania’s parliament on January 29 voted in European Parliament lawmaker Viorica Dancila as the country’s first woman prime minister. The left-wing government she will lead is currently facing criticism from the European [&hel ...
A regular monthly poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) has found the total business climate indicator increased in January 2018 by 2.6 percentage points compared with December. The poll […]
Controversy attended the January 28 diocesan election to shortlist two candidates to be the next Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan of Vidin, who will also become a member of the church’s […]
Czech Republic President Milos Zeman on Saturday won the country’s presidential election runoff, official results showed. The national statistics office CSU said with results from more than 98 percent of voting districts counted, [ ...
Calling on the world to “stand together against the normalisation of hate,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres emphasised in his message on January 27, the International Day dedicated to honouring […]
A flu epidemic has been declared in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia, and schools will be closed from January 29 until the end of the school week on February 2. This […]
