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Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first eight months of the year stood at 230.5 million euro, the equivalent of 0.4 per cent of the gross domestic product, statistics […]
MPs in Skopje are continuing to debate the constitutional amendments which are necessary for the implementation of the agreement reached with Greece r ...
Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, who accepted it on October 17. Kotzias resigned ...
Bulgaria’s coalition of ultra-nationalist parties, the United Patriots, has hit its latest turbulence with Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov ...
The percentage of Bulgarians at risk of poverty or social exclusion dropped from 44.8 per cent in 2008 to 38.9 per cent in 2017, but this figure was still the […]
The case of the murder of television presenter Viktoria Marinova has revealed the huge of lack of trust in Bulgaria’s institutions both within the country and abroad, President Roumen Radev […]
In January – August 2018 the total value of all the goods exported from Bulgaria amounted to 35 078.4 million leva, which was 1.5 per cent less than the same […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on October 10 that he would raise with the centre-right EU-level European People’s Party the statements that politicians had made about Bulgaria in connection […]
Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry went ahead with conferring honours on Dyanko Markov, a 96-year-old veteran of the Union of Bulgarian National Legions, in spite of Bulgarian Jewish organisations having said that […]
The Appellate Court in Skopje dismissed an appeal by former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, as being “groundless”, against a ruling over a two-year prison sentence. The Skopje court partially upheld […]
