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Greek authorities have announced that as of 6am on January 5, no vehicles with a load capacity of more than 1.5 tons will be allowed into the country through three […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has told an annual summit in the Greek city of Thessaloniki that he is concerned by the divisions in society i ...
The governing body of the Greek Orthodox Church, its Holy Synod, took a formal decision on October 12 to recognise the Ukrainian Orthodox Church as au ...
Bulgaria’s Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova and her Greek counterpart Kostis Hatzidakis signed a number of contracts for the Bulgaria-Greece natu ...
Greek law enforcement authorities, supported by EU police agency Europol, dismantled on September 23 an organised crime group involved in the trafficking of human beings (selling ova), illegal adoption and […]
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva and Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, who began his tour of the region from Sofia, reaffirmed the strategic nature of the […]
Additional police and gendarmerie teams have been sent to the Bulgarian-Greek border following an increase in attempts by migrants to cross into the country illegally from Greece, Bulgarian Interior Minister […]
Bulgaria has conferred its highest state honour, the Stara Planina first degree, on outgoing Greek ambassador Grigorios Vassiloconstandakis. Vassiloconstandakis, whose term in Bulgaria ends in October, was given the honour […]
After four years, the capital controls in Greece have finally been lifted. The grounds for such a development had been laid by the previous government and has been implemented by […]
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on August 26 the complete abolition of capital controls. “In co-operation with the Bank of Greece, we are fully restoring the normality in capital […]
