Bulgaria high court challenges constitutionality of bank insolvency law amendments
Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court will rule on whether amendments to Bulgaria’s bank insolvency law, passed by Parliament earlier this year, breach
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Month: May 2018
Zaev: Referendum to be held in late 2018 on ‘Macedonia’ name issue
Athens and Skopje are close to resolving the name issue, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev told a May 30 news conference
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European Health Commissioner: ‘Tobacco consumption still a threat to our societies’
Tobacco use remains the single biggest cause of chronic disease and avoidable death in the EU. Statistics on deaths in the EU
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Bulgarian Foreign Ministry condemns shelling attack on Israel from Gaza
Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on May 30 that it strongly condemned the rocket and mortar fire by armed
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US State Department report notes assaults, harassment of minority religions in Bulgaria
Muslims, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses reported multiple cases of physical assaults, harassment, and threats against members of their communities in
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Bulgaria scores well on EU bathing waters survey, but number of ‘excellent’ sites drops
Bulgaria’s coastal bathing waters remain up to the European Union’s mandatory standards, but the number of sites meeting the “excellent
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One third of Bulgarians in arrears with payments
About a third of Bulgarians – 34.2 per cent – were in arrears with payments of mortgage, rent, utility bills
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Bulgarian, Turkish interior ministers meet over border security and co-operation
Bulgarian Interior Minister Valentin Radev and his Turkish counterpart Süleyman Soylu met in Edirne on May 29 for a workshop
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Western Balkan leaders ask EU ‘to do the right thing’
Senior government officials from several Western Balkans countries have put pressure on the European Union, during the annual council meeting
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