Romania: Referendum to ban gay marriage fails on weak voter turnout
Too few eligible voters in Romania turned out for a two-day referendum that sought to prevent same-sex marriages by changing
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Month: October 2018
Bulgarian Ataka leader Siderov wants his party to hold post of Interior Ministry chief secretary
Volen Siderov, leader of the Ataka party – part of the United Patriots, the ultra-nationalist grouping that is the minority
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Sixty per cent of Bulgarians do not go to compulsory annual medical check-ups – report
About 60 per cent of adult Bulgarians do not attend the mandatory annual medical examination, according to National Health Insurance
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Romania referendum to change constitutional definition of marriage may be set to fail
A two-day referendum in Romania on changing the constitutional definition of marriage to narrow it to “the consensual marriage between
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Bulgarians re-enact September 1944 operation that stopped Wehrmacht reaching Kyustendil
A group of Bulgarians have re-enacted a little-known clash in which, in September 1944, the Ninth Infantry Regiment of Plovdiv
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Two border police employees face discipline over latest security lapse at Sofia Airport
Two border police employees at the Sofia Airport border checkpoint are facing disciplinary punishment as a result of an incident
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Defence Ministry honours controversial figure Markov in spite of objections from Bulgarian Jews
Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry went ahead with conferring honours on Dyanko Markov, a 96-year-old veteran of the Union of Bulgarian National
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Appellate Court confirms two-year prison sentence for Gruevski
The Appellate Court in Skopje dismissed an appeal by former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, as being “groundless”, against a ruling
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Poroshenko tells Bulgarian PM he dreams of a new road linking Odessa to Varna
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has told visiting Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov: “I dream that we will sit together in
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