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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov symbolically handed over the six-month rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU to his Austrian counterpart Sebastian Kurz on June 30 2018. The ceremony […]
Greek premier Alexis Tsipras and his Bulgarian counterpart, Boiko Borissov signed a common declaration on the IGB natural gas pipeline that will conn ...
As of July 1 2018, travellers in the EU booking package holidays will enjoy stronger consumer rights, the European Commission said. Not only will trad ...
Camillo Zuccoli, Ambassador of the Sovereign Order of Malta to Bulgaria, hosted a reception in Sofia in honour of the Feast of Saint John the Baptist. ...
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first five months of 2018 was 1.42 billion leva, or 1.4 per cent of this year’s estimated gross domestic […]
Spain and Greece have agreed to take back asylum seekers already registered in those countries who are intercepted at the Austria-German border, Chancellor Angela Merkel confirmed on Friday. However she […]
Despite the recent heavy rainfall and the medium-term forecast for more rain, Sofia city hall plans to go ahead with the plans to begin repairs on a number of streets […]
A regular monthly poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) said that views of the business climate in the country in June 2018 showed a mild decline from the previous […]
The motion of no confidence against Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s cabinet, tabled by the opposition socialists on the topic of the government’s alleged failures in the security sector, was defeated […]
The municipalities of Smolyan and Chepelare in southern Bulgaria declared a state of emergency on June 28 after heavy rainfall over the past 24 hours resulted in raised river levels […]
