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The national co-ordinators for the China-Central and Eastern Europe Co-operation Initiative, known as the 16+1, have held talks at the Bulgarian Foreign Ministry ahead of the summit to be hosted […]
The strange spectacle of the confrontation between Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov and Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova continued on June 6, with him asking the Prosecutor-General to investigate allegedly […]
The Bulgarian National Assembly’s committee on the budget and finance approved on June 6 the 3.5 billion leva proposed projects to acquire fighter jets and armoured cars. The committee approved […]
There are sufficient trained lifesavers to be on duty at Bulgaria’s beaches and swimming pools in summer 2018, according to Anton Albantov, director of the Bulgarian Red Cross’s water rescue […]
Yet another ambitious EU plan is a step closer to implementation following Romania’s decision to start building the part of the Bulgaria-Romania-Hungary-Austria-BRUA gas pipeline on its territory. The state-owned company, Transgaz, ...
There were heated moments in Bulgaria’s National Assembly on June 6 when the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) condemned a decision by the Stara Zagora municipal council to change […]
The Bulgarian National Assembly’s defence committee voted on June 5 to approve 3.5 billion leva military modernisation projects involving the acquisition of fighter jets and armoured infantry vehicles. The projects […]
The Plovdiv Mediaeval Festival will be held on June 23 and 24 2018 at Mladezhkiya Hulm (“Youth Hill”) in Bulgaria’s second city, with 150 participants showing residents and guests “new […]
In the run-up to the annual Sofia Pride, the 2018 event is seeing the customary calls for it to be banned, while it is also set to attract the customary […]
The European Court of Justice ruled that member states cannot refuse residency to non-EU spouses of EU citizens. However, the court’s decision still allows states to decide whether to legalize […]
