Section: Novinite (Bulgaria)
Bulgaria’s Poli Genova Proceeds to Eurovision Final
Bulgarian singer Poli Genova, who represents Bulgaria at this year’s edition of the Eurovision Song Contest with the song “If Love Was a Crime”, qualified for the final which will take place in Stockholm on Saturday. Genova, who also participated in 2011, was one of the eighteen artists performing in the second semifinal on...
Bulgaria’s Poli Genova to Perform at Eurovision Semifinal on Thursday
The Bulgarian representative at this year’s edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, Poli Genova, will perform in the second semifinal taking place in Stockholm on Thursday evening. Genova, who had previously represented Bulgaria in 2011, will compete with the song “If Love Was a Crime”. The Bulgarian representative will be the twelfth out...
Bulgaria Cuts Deficit in Trade with Third Countries in Q1 2016
Bulgaria slashed deficit in trade with third countries to BGN 105 M (exports FOB – imports CIF) in the first quarter of 2016, compared with a shortfall of BGN 625 M a year earlier, official statistics showed on Tuesday. Bulgarian exports to third countries dropped by by 8.8% year-on-year in the first quarter of the year, reaching BGN 3.53...
Stratfor: Bulgaria, Romania to Get ‘Increasingly Involved’ in Crises over Refugees, Ukraine
Bulgaria and Romania, lying at the eastern border of both NATO and the EU, will become ‘increasingly involved’ in Europe’s migration crisis and the West’s standoff with Russia over Ukraine, Stratfor has forecast. While Romania and Bulgaria, which joined NATO in 2004, will continue to accept the Alliance’s military buildup...
US Energy Envoy: New Gas Projects ‘Are Little More Than Distractions’
New proposals and MoUs for new gas projects sometimes “have little more than the goal of distracting from the good projects that are underway”, Amos Hochstein, US Special Coordinator for International Energy Affairs, said on Friday. In a phone briefing on the US-EU Energy Council meeting held earlier this week, he said there were “a lot of...
Russia Still Ready to Build Gas Pipeline to Southern Europe, Lavrov Says
Moscow hasn’t given up on its plans to build a pipeline to carry Russian natural gas to southern Europe across the Black Sea, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has confirmed. “The southern direction is not yet written off,” Lavrov told sputniknews.com earlier this week. “Sometime in February, I think Gazprom signed a memorandum...
Gazprom Puts Forward New South Stream Route
Russian energy giant Gazprom has tabled a new option to revive the South Stream pipeline, local media report.Alternative routes are being studied for South Stream and Nord Stream II which would possibly use private funding, instead of counting on EU support, Vesti Finance quotes Andrey Konoplyanik, adviser to the head of Gazprom Export, as...
Bulgaria President Dismisses Attacks over Joint Brigade with Ukraine
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev has not made any official steps on behalf of Bulgaria set up a joint army brigade with Ukraine and Romania, his press office has indicated, according to the Bulgarian News Agency (BTA).Last week Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko announced the three countries were studying the possibility of taking the...
Ukraine Deputy PM Praises Joint Army Brigade Proposal with Bulgaria, Romania
Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Pavlo Rozenko has said the idea to set up a joint army brigade with Bulgarian and Romanian forces sa “very timely and right.” In an interview with the Bulgarian National Radio, he has called Bulgaria “a reliable partner”. “Bulgaria has already gone down the road of reform where Ukraine...
Bulgaria’s Socialists Strike Cooperation Deal with Russian Opposition
Bulgaria’s biggest opposition party BSP on Friday signed an agreement to cooperate with A Just Russia (Spravedlivaya Rossiya), a left-wing party. Mihail Mikov, the head of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) is on a visit to Moscow with a party delegation earlier this week and is attending Spravedlivaya Rossiya’s April 22-23 congress....
