Television cameraman assaulted during anti-government protest in Bulgarian capital – report
A cameraman from Bulgarian television station BTV was assaulted during an anti-government protest in Sofia on September 16, with participants
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Month: September 2018
Volunteers join ‘Shalom’, Sofia municipality initiative to clean off swastikas, hate slogans in Bulgarian capital
More than 100 volunteers turned out on September 16 to take part in an initiative by the Organization of the
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Siderov, Mareshki table resolution calling on Bulgarian PM to oppose EU sanctions against Hungary
The leader of the far-right Ataka party, Volen Siderov, and of Parliament’s smallest party, Vesselin Mareshki, have tabled a resolution
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Bulgarian Forestry Agency chief resigns over Romanian border fence ‘conflict of interest’
Bulgaria’s Agriculture Ministry made much of the fence put up at the land border with Romania to try to prevent
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Frontex: Irregular border crossings into EU in January – August 2018 down 40 per cent
In the first eight months of 2018, the number of irregular border crossings into the EU via the top four
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Bulgarian Parliament legislates compulsory seatbelts in buses
Close to four weeks after the Svoge bus crash disaster in which 17 people died, Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on September
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Bulgaria prosecutors raid Sofia establishments in money-laundering probe
Special prosecutors raided two Sofia restaurants on September 14 in connection to an investigation into alleged money-laundering and illegal cigarette
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European Parliament votes in favour of lifting visa requirements for Kosovars
The European Parliament confirmed on September 13 2018 the mandate for negotiations with the Council on the proposal to waive
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Macedonian PM Zaev tells MEPs: ‘We dream of being a part of the European family’
Securing public and opposition support for both the name change and for the next steps required for the republic’s possible
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