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After seven straight months of surplus, Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry reported a consolidated Budget deficit of 74.2 million leva at the end of October. The main reason for the downturn was […]
The number of criminal charges pressed for trafficking in human beings has increased by 30 per cent in Bulgaria, the country’s Justice Minister, Diana Kovacheva, said on December 4 2012. […]
Bulgarian traffic police said on December 4 2012 that they were carrying out checks whether car had winter snow tyres after the first snowfalls saw a number of accidents said […]
Bulgarian anti-organised crime police, working together with the State Agency for National Security, have arrested 10 people who in the past five years are alleged to have deprived the state […]
An earthquake reported to have measured 4.6 on the Richter scale shook the towns of Kavarna, Balchik and Shabla on Bulgaria’s northern Black Sea coast on December 3 2012 at […]
The United States and Bulgaria have pledged to step up their co-operation in investigating the July suicide bomber terrorist attack on Israeli tourists at Bourgas Airport, with Bulgaria continuing to […]
Snowploughs were out on the streets of Bulgarian capital city Sofia on December 3 as the first major snowfall of the winter hit the country. Local media reported traffic was […]
The European Commission said on December 3 that it has opened a formal investigation into whether Bulgarian Energy Holding (BEH), the umbrella corporation set up in 2008 to hold most […]
The Bulgarian Christmas charity initiative, which seeks to raise funds for medical treatment and equipment for seriously ill children, is underway for the 10th year. The initiative, under the patronage […]
On the deadline day for Constitutional Court nominations, Bulgaria’s centre-right party Union of Democratic Forces (UDF) officially submitted the name of prosecutor Galya Gougousheva for the one vacant seat – […]
