Romania’s Liberals to leave ruling coalition, government
Romania’s National-Liberals decided to scrap their coalition agreement with the Social-Democrats and leave the government on February 25. The party’s
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Author: Alex Bivol
Romania’s ruling coalition teetering on the edge
Romania’s government was on the verge of collapsing on February 25, with the recent spat over the cabinet’s line-up exposing
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Borissov and Tsvetanov – tandem on the rocks?
On the eve of Bulgaria’s former ruling party GERB’s national congress, one that is expected to usher in some change
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Bulgaria’s economy in 2013: Treading water
In a year that saw three governments in office in Sofia, Bulgaria’s economy did as well as could have been
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Bulgaria set to cut renewable energy feed-in tariff
Bulgaria is set to reduce the feed-in tariff paid to solar and wind power producers by 20 per cent after
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EU officials ‘disappointed’ with Ukraine’s decision to freeze EU push
Ukraine’s decision to freeze all efforts towards signing the association agreement with the European Union at next week’s Eastern Partnership
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Gazprom launches work on South Stream in Bulgaria – from afar
Gazprom chief executive Alexey Miller and Bulgarian Prime Minister Plamen Oresharski launched the construction on the South Stream gas pipeline
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Bulgaria’s sentenced Olympian expelled from Brazil
Bulgaria’s Olympic weightlifting champion Gulubin Boevski, sentenced to nine years and four months imprisonment in Brazil last year on charges
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Hassan Ademov emerges as Bulgaria’s ‘most promising’ minister
Quite early into his term as prime minister, Boiko Borissov had banned his ministers from making promises, telling them instead
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