Section: Novinite (Bulgaria)
Schulz Criticises Tsipras of Splitting Common EU Stance on Russia
European Parliament (EP) President Martin Schulz criticised on Wednesday the newly-elected Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras of splitting the common European Union (EU) stance on Russia. Tsipras’s radical left party SYRIZA won the early parliamentary elections in Greece on Sunday and established a coalition government with the right-wing...
EU Foreign Ministers to Discuss Further Sanctions Against Russia
The foreign ministers of the European Union (EU) member states are planning to expand the sanctions against Russia in view of the renewed escalation of violence in Ukraine. This becomes clear from the draft conclusions of the foreign ministers that is to take place on Thursday, EUobserver reports. According to the draft conclusions, the foreign...
New Greek Govt Objects to EU Call for Further Sanctions on Russia
Greece’s new government on Tuesday distanced itself from an EU call to consider expansion of the bloc’s sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis. The move could be setting the stage for possible friction with Greece’s partners in the bloc over foreign policy issues in addition to disagreements over economic and financial...
New Greek Govt Disagrees with EU Call for Further Sanctions on Russia
Greece’s new government on Tuesday distanced itself from an EU call to consider expansion of the bloc’s sanctions against Russia over the Ukraine crisis. The move could be setting the stage for possible friction with Greece’s partners in the bloc over foreign policy issues in addition to disagreements over economic and financial...
Gazprom Plans to Start Pumping Gas to Turkey via New Pipeline in Dec 2016
Russia’s Gazprom said on Tuesday a planned gas pipeline to Turkey will become operational by the end of next year. “We agreed to plan our work in such a way that would allow us to sign an Intergovernmental Agreement on the gas pipeline in the second quarter this year, therefore the first gas would come to Turkey in December 2016,” Gazprom...
Bulgaria, Romania Discuss Elements of NATO’s Readiness Action Plan
Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev and his Romanian counterpart Mircea Dusa on Tuesday discussed the creation of command and control elements that would be deployed in the two countries as part of NATO’s Readiness Action Plan. The two defence ministers also agreed upon the need to exchange Bulgarian and Romanian military...
Bulgaria, Romania Discuss Details of NATO’s Readiness Action Plan
Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev and his Romanian counterpart Mircea Dusa on Tuesday discussed the creation of command and control elements that would be deployed in the two countries as part of NATO’s Readiness Action Plan. The two defence ministers also agreed upon the need to exchange Bulgarian and Romanian military...
World Commemorates Victims of Holocaust, Liberation of Auschwitz
State representatives from all around the world gather in Poland on Tuesday to mark the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. January 27, the day in which the Red Army liberated the camp in 1945, was declared as an International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the...
Ukraine Declares State of Emergency in Donbass
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced on Monday that the government had decided to declare a state of emergency in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Yatsenyuk added that the overall alert level across the country was heightened in order to coordinate the activities of the authorities and provide security for the citizens....
Ukraine Declares State of Emergency in Donbas
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk announced on Monday that the government decided to declare a state of emergency in the eastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Yatsenyuk added that the overall alert level across the country was heightened in order to coordinate the activities of the authorities and provide security for the citizens....
