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The number of asylum-seekers applying for refugee status in Bulgaria remains low in spite of the crisis in the Middle East and North Africa, going by figures released on June […]
Bulgaria’s armed forces are to dismiss 2400 military personnel, out of a total 2700 job cuts, from July 1 2012, the Defence Ministry said in response to an inquiry by […]
Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaçi is visiting Bulgaria with a message of optimism about his country’s European future, undeterred by the Tomislav Nikolić victory in Serbian president elections and the […]
Following a joint operation in 2010 by Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry and the State Agency for National Security, 13 alleged members of radical Islamist organised Al Waqf al Islam have been […]
Negotiations on June 18, attended by Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naidenov and representatives of environmentalist groups on the controversial amendments of the Forestry Act, which sparked protests […]
After a week of drama and speculation, Bulgaria’s men’s volleyball team finally got a new head coach – Naiden Naidenov. He was one of the deputies of Radostin Stoichev who […]
Sofia Tech Park, the 100 million leva (50 million euro) project to be built next to the Bulgarian capital city’s Tsarigradsko Chaussee Boulevard, is no less important than the building […]
Bourgas, on Bulgaria’s Black Sea, is to turn a Cold War-era bomb shelter built to accommodate 3500 people into a “Bewitched Underground City” tourist attraction by the summer of 2013. […]
Bulgarian state railways BDZ started on June 18 2012 pre-sales of tickets for seats on trains to the Black Sea cities of Varna and Bourgas. The pre-sale term is 20 […]
The World Bank had been increasing its lending to support Bulgaria’s banking system – one of the most exposed to Greece – and acting to prevent a credit crunch in […]
