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Ursula von der Leyen’s plans as European Commission president-elect received a jolt on Thursday as candidates to become commissioners from Romania and Hungary were deemed inappropriate by the European Parliament. […]
Jock Palfreeman will remain in the Busmantsi temporary detention facility pending a ruling by the Supreme Court of Cassation on an application to re-open the case and suspend his parole, […]
European Commission has allocated an additional 250 000 euro and its experts will provide support and guidance to 13 Bulgarian research and innovation centres, the Commission said on September 26. […]
Greek law enforcement authorities, supported by EU police agency Europol, dismantled on September 23 an organised crime group involved in the trafficking of human beings (selling ova), illegal adoption and […]
Thousands of Bulgarians took part in a September 25 protest march in Sofia, the third in succession, against the sole nominee to be the country’s next Prosecutor-General, Ivan Geshev. The […]
The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) selected on September 25 Kristalina Georgieva to serve as IMF Managing Director and Chair of the Executive Board for a five-year […]
The official campaign period in Bulgaria’s 2019 municipal elections begins on September 27, but in capital city Sofia, the race already has begun. The current count of mayoral candidates is […]
Perhaps it may be an annoyance to 12 of the 14 candidates to be the next mayor of Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv that a poll by the reputable Alpha Research […]
Arguably the most iconic of travel brands, Thomas Cook, has collapsed after 178 years of business, leaving a train of debris and much recrimination behind it. The end came on […]
Tsvetan Tsvetanov, a former Interior Minister in Boiko Borissov’s first government and formerly a deputy leader of Borissov’s GERB party, has founded the Euro-Atlantic Security Center, an NGO working on […]
