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Members of the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a call to European Union ministers to admit Bulgaria and Romania to the border check-free Schengen […]
Switzerland will remove its labour market restrictions on citizens of EU countries Bulgaria and Romania at the end of May 2019, the President of the Swiss Confederation, Alain Berset, confirmed […]
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that Romania should pay about 345 000 euro to 23 victims or victims’ descendants of the 1989 Revolution because of Romanian […]
The European Commission said that on October 24 it had adopted a proposal on fishing opportunities in 2019 for the most important commercial fish stocks in the Black Sea. The […]
Too few eligible voters in Romania turned out for a two-day referendum that sought to prevent same-sex marriages by changing the country’s constitution, election officials said on October 7. The […]
A two-day referendum in Romania on changing the constitutional definition of marriage to narrow it to “the consensual marriage between a man and a woman” appeared unlikely on October 7 […]
There has been a significant improvement in disinfection measures at border crossings with Romania to prevent the spread of African Swine Fever into Bulgaria, Agriculture Minister Rouman Porozhanov said on […]
Tensions flared in Romania this week after a politician from the ruling Social Democratic Party (PSD) posted a video on social media comparing the country’s president to Adolf Hitler. The […]
Construction of a 133km fence at the land border with Romania, to prevent African swine fever entering Bulgaria, has been completed, according to deputy agriculture minister Yanko Ivanov. “Bruno” wire […]
Children younger than a year should not be taken to Greece, Romania or Serbia, given the increased incidence of measles, according to Bulgaria’s national consultant on microbiology Professor Todor Kantardzhiev. […]
