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Liviu Dragnea, the head of Romania’s ruling social-democrat party, turned himself in on May 27 after a high court upheld a three and a half year sentence against him on […]
Bulgaria’s Cabinet, meeting on May 15, approved agreements with the Republic of North Macedonia and with Romania on aspects of co-operation on envir ...
At a regular meeting on February 20, Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved a draft memorandum of understanding on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs ...
There is an old line that comes from the days of Romania’s “Socialist realism” style of literary-ideological manipulation: “Th ...
The Krushari – Dobromir border checkpoint between Bulgaria and Romania opened on December 17. The opening is in line with a 2012 intergovernmental agreement on the opening of two new […]
Next year Bulgarian and Romanian fishermen in the Black Sea will be able to continue fishing at the same levels as in 2018. The Council of the EU adopted on […]
The European Parliament voted on December 11 to call on the European Council to admit Bulgaria and Romania to the EU’s Schengen visa zone. The vote was 514 in favour, […]
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has partially rejected a cabinet reshuffle proposed by his country’s government. Iohannis, of the National Liberal Party (PNL), cited the current government’s disappointing record, saying he [&h ...
Romania’s untapped oil and gas potential of up to 200 billion cubic meters, or bcm, in the Black Sea has attracted the interest of the world’s oil and gas majors, […]
The three European Union member states in south-eastern Europe were among the largest net recipients of personal transfers in the bloc in 2017 , the EU statistics body Eurostat said […]
