Bulgaria’s GERB to seek Constitutional Court ruling on Istanbul Convention
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s party GERB, the senior partner in the governing coalition, plans to seek a ruling from
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Month: January 2018
Unemployment in Bulgaria was 6.1% in December 2017, again below EU average – Eurostat
Unemployment in Bulgarian in December 2017 was 6.1 per cent, down from 6.7 per cent in December 2016 and again
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Bulgarian Constitutional Court rules Parliament cannot reject an MP’s resignation
Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court ruled on January 30 that the National Assembly acted unconstitutionally in rejecting the resignation of MP Delyan
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Flu epidemics declared, closing schools in Varna, Rousse and four other Bulgarian districts
Schools have been closed in Bulgaria’s largest Black Sea city Varna, Rousse on the Danube, and in four other districts
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Romania: Viorica Dancila voted in as first woman prime minister
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
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Poll sees improved business climate in Bulgaria in January 2018
A regular monthly poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) has found the total business climate indicator increased in January
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Controversy as two candidates shortlisted to be new Bulgarian Orthodox Church Vidin Metropolitan
Controversy attended the January 28 diocesan election to shortlist two candidates to be the next Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan of
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Pro-Russian Milos Zeman wins Czech Republic presidential runoff
Czech Republic President Milos Zeman on Saturday won the country’s presidential election runoff, official results showed. The national statistics office CSU said
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day: ‘The best antidote to anti-Semitism and hate speech is knowledge’
Calling on the world to “stand together against the normalisation of hate,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres emphasised in his
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