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Smiling politicians line Budapest’s grand avenues canvassing support ahead of April 8 elections. However, few are from Fidesz, Hungary’s ruling party since 2010. Instead, Fidesz billboards star the challengers to Prime […]
A key element of celebrations of Easter among Orthodox Christians is the sharing of the “Holy Fire” which they believe emanates miraculous ...
Roma people in the European Union daily face basic challenges of poor sanitation, hunger and youth unemployment, according to a European Union Agency ...
The National Council of Religious Communities in Bulgaria, which includes representatives of all major faiths, has come out in support of the Muslim c ...
Close to 47 per cent of Bulgarian households said that they had difficulty in paying for health care services, according to figures released by EU statistics agency Eurostat on the […]
Fresh speculation emerged on April 5 in Athens over the timing of Greece’s next general election. Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told a cabinet meeting earlier this week that his government will seek […]
Bulgarian Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva hosted on April 5 a Passover Seder attended by leaders of Jewish communities from Bulgaria and the Balkans, as well as […]
