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After two days of heated debate, Greece’s Parliament voted by a slim margin on the evening of February 8 to approve the Nato accession protocol of the former Yugoslav republic […]
A post claiming – contrary to historical fact – that Jews carried out a “genocide of 15 million Germans” is among antisemitic ...
The UK ambassador in Sofia, Emma Hopkins, published an open letter on February 8 on the topic of Brexit, addressed to British nationals living in Bulg ...
The ping-pong match between Bulgaria’s Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva and President Roumen Radev over Venezuela and other foreign policy i ...
Bulgaria plans to sell diplomatic properties in nine countries in 2019, Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva told the National Assembly during Question Time on February 8. The countries are the United […]
Bulgaria is among the European Union countries where fathers’ participation in family leave is the lowest in the bloc, according to a new report. Like other EU countries, participation has […]
A regular three-month survey by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) has found that consumer confidence in January 2019 was 1.9 percentage points higher than in October. In 2018, the three-month […]
A record number of people in Europe were affected by measles in 2018, with 72 children and adults dying of the illness, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said. “More children […]
The Pirin National Park Directorate and the Mountain Rescue Service in Bulgaria’s winter resort Bansko have added additional temporary signs marking the dangerous areas near the ski slopes in the […]
Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry is to seek an external consultant for the project to acquire 150 armoured and auxiliary infantry vehicles, Defence Chief General Andrei Botsev said. The project, which is […]
