Greece makes last-ditch attempt to strike deal with troika
The Greek government has launched a last-ditch effort to reach a compromise with its lenders that will see the troika
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Author: Independent Balkan News Agency
Romania’s ruling party cleans ranks after electoral loss
Romania’s ruling social-democrat party PSD expelled on November 27 several high ranking members who had voiced discontent over the presidential
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Former caretaker finance minister Porozhanov returns to head Bulgaria’s State Fund Agriculture
Roumen Porozhanov, who was finance minister in Bulgaria’s 2014 caretaker cabinet, is again being appointed to head the State Fund
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Mosque in Bulgaria’s Pazardzhik, focus of anti-terrorism raid, not under jurisdiction of Chief Mufti
The Ebu Bekir mosque in the Bulgarian town of Pazardzhik that was a focus of a security operation against alleged
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Bulgarian police, prosecutors in operation against ‘radical Islam’
More than 150 police and gendarmerie cordoned off a mainly Roma area in the Bulgarian town of Pazardzhik on November
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New European Commission to continue monitoring Bulgaria and Romania on judicial reform, fighting corruption
The new European Commission that took office at the beginning of October 2014 intends keeping in place its mechanism of
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Bulgarian opposition outraged by rule against insulting PM, cabinet ministers
The opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party says it considering mounting a Constitutional Court challenge to a new rule enabling the Speaker
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Plevneliev meets ADL: ‘Anti-Semitism, hatred and intolerance must be fought daily’
Anti-Semitism, hatred and intolerance must be fought daily, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev and the leadership of the Anti-Defamation League agreed
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Plevneliev: Balkans have enormous potential for establishing successful business partnerships
The Balkan region is working to ensure connectivity and integration and has enormous potential for establishing successful business partnerships, Bulgarian
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