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Leaders of the European Parliament have declared closed the process of hearings of candidates for the next European Commission, to be headed by Ursula von der Leyen, and have agreed […]
Bulgaria’s European Commissioner Maria Gabriel was elected as First Vice-President of the European People’s Party (EPP) on November 21, Pr ...
In 2019, Bulgaria is exceeding three per cent of GDP on defence spending, and with its Nato allies is spending more than $100 billion on defence up to ...
The congress of the centre-right European People’s Party has overwhelmingly elected Donald Tusk as the EPP President with 491 in favour (93 per cent ...
The heads of three hospitals in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia have been suspended pending the outcome of an investigation into the death of a three-year-old child. The suspensions were reported […]
An outdoor ice rink billed as to be the largest in the Balkans – and certainly in Bulgaria – is to open in the city of Plovdiv in late November, […]
Bulgaria’s Cabinet agreed on November 20 2019 to pay a Christmas bonus of 40 leva (about 20 euro) to pensioners who get monthly pensions of less than 363 leva, Labour […]
Valeri Simeonov, leader of the National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria – part of the ultra-nationalist minority partner in the coalition government – was on November 20 elected one […]
Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first nine months of the year stood at 714.5 million euro, the equivalent of 1.2 per cent of the gross domestic product, statistics […]
The eighth International Triennal of Graphic Arts 2019 opens in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia on November 25 and continues until December 31. Work by more than 300 artists from 36 […]
