Bulgaria-Romania-Hungary-Austria-BRUA gas pipeline to bring change to Balkans
Yet another ambitious EU plan is a step closer to implementation following Romania’s decision to start building the part of
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Month: June 2018
Row in Bulgaria’s Parliament over replacement of 800 ‘Turkish-Arabic’ place names in Stara Zagora
There were heated moments in Bulgaria’s National Assembly on June 6 when the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) condemned
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Bulgarian parliamentary defence committee approves 3.5BN leva military modernisation projects
The Bulgarian National Assembly’s defence committee voted on June 5 to approve 3.5 billion leva military modernisation projects involving the
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Plovdiv Mediaeval Festival 2018 to be held on June 23-24
The Plovdiv Mediaeval Festival will be held on June 23 and 24 2018 at Mladezhkiya Hulm (“Youth Hill”) in Bulgaria’s
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Sofia Pride 2018: Customary condemnations – and calls of support
In the run-up to the annual Sofia Pride, the 2018 event is seeing the customary calls for it to be
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ECJ: Same-sex spouses of EU citizens have residency rights
The European Court of Justice ruled that member states cannot refuse residency to non-EU spouses of EU citizens. However, the
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Counting the cost after torrential rains, ‘tornado’ hit Bulgaria’s Varna and villages
More than 100 million leva would be needed to avert Varna being flooded after intense rainfall of the kind that
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Bulgarian Traffic Police join in EU-wide operation against drink-driving
Bulgarian Traffic Police are conducting a countrywide operation to check motorists for drink-driving or driving under the influence of illegal
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Bulgarian Cabinet ministers disagree over fate of ‘illegal’ restaurants and clubs at Sunny Beach
Bulgarian Cabinet ministers are at odds over the future of five restaurants and bars on the south beach of the
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