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The change to daylight savings time in the early morning of March 31 will affect the schedules of 29 trains, Bulgarian state railways BDZ said. Summer daylight saving time starts […]
New measures strengthening the European Border and Coast Guard to secure the EU’s borders were agreed by European Parliament and Council negotiators on March 28. The provisionally agreed changes to […]
The European Commission has welcomed the adoption by the European Parliament of ambitious measures it had earlier proposed to tackle marine litter coming from the 10 single-use plastic products most […]
Bulgaria’s Chief Directorate for Combating Organised Crime carried out 237 special operations in 2018, including 95 with other services in the Interior Ministry and 56 with foreign partner services, according […]
Everyone is preparing for a no-deal Brexit, the consequences of which will be very heavy for the whole of Europe, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov told a business forum on […]
Dr Daniela Daritkova is to succeed Tsvetan Tsvetanov as head of the GERB parliamentary group, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on March 28, a day after Tsvetanov said that he […]
The parliamentary leader of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, said on March 27 that he was resigning from Parliament over a controversy about his acquisition of […]
Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on March 27 to pass at second reading amendments to the country’s Electoral Code on validity thresholds on preferential voting, restoring the status quo changed by a […]
Bulgaria is granting 3 485 028 leva (about 1.78 million euro) to countries in the Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus to finance projects for the development of education, […]
Twelve specially-equipped aircraft will drop more than a million vaccines across several parts of Bulgaria to counter rabies in wild animals, the country’s Food Safety Agency said on March 27. […]
