Section: Bulgaria
Bulgarian President Calls for 2016 to be Year of Stability, Reforms
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev called for 2016 to be a year of stability and reforms. In an interview for the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) on Friday, Plevneliev highlighted that the next year will be decisive for the healthcare and judicial reforms. As regards the amendments to the constitution concerning the reform of the judiciary,...
Number of Forced Displaced People Expected to Exceed 60 Million in 2015
According to estimates of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), the number of people subject to forced displacement will exceed 60 million for the first time in 2015. This means that one in every 122 people in the world has been forced to flee their home. The latest report, which is based on projections from the first half of this year, shows increase...
Nord Stream II Not in EU Interests, Donald Tusk Says
Nord Stream II, a proposed new Russia-Germany gas pipeline, is not in the EU’s interests, the European Council President Donald Tusk has said. “In my perspective, Nord Stream [II] does not help diversification, nor would it reduce our energy dependency,” Tusk said at a press conference in Brussels on Friday, according to euobserver.com....
EU Ambassadors Agree to Extend Sanctions on Russia to end-July 2016
European Union envoys have agreed to extend the bloc’s economic sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine by another six months until 31 July 2016, newswires reported on Friday. The sanctions, which apply to Russia’s oil, military and energy sectors as well as individuals linked to the Ukraine conflict, were to expire on 31...
Russia-backed Nord Stream II Not in EU Interests, Donald Tusk Says
Nord Stream II, a proposed new Russia-Germany gas pipeline, is not in the EU’s interests, the European Council President Donald Tusk has said. “In my perspective, Nord Stream [II] does not help diversification, nor would it reduce our energy dependency,” Tusk has said at a press conference in Brussels on Friday, according to euobserver.com....
EU Ambassadors Agree to Extends Sanctions on Russia to end-July 2016
European Union envoys have agreed to extend the bloc’s economic sanctions on Russia over the crisis in Ukraine by another six months until 31 July 2016, newswires reported on Friday. The sanctions, which apply to Russia’s oil, military and energy sectors as well as individuals linked to the Ukraine conflict, were to expire on 31...
Who’s right and who’s wrong: South Stream revisited
Yesterday’s exchange between Russia’s president and Bulgaria’s prime minister reopened the subject of the gas pipeline that never was. The international project with Russia and Italy in the leading roles was supposed to deliver Russian gas to Central and Western Europe using a pipeline running along the Black Sea bed via...
WW2 – the war we could not have avoided
Bulgaria and World War Two. Could we avoid the largest military conflict so far? Taking this question is Associate Professor Dr. Sonya Penkova, director of the National Museum of Military History. The occasion is the large-scale exhibition, named The War We Couldn’t Avoid. It is devoted to the 70th anniversary of the global conflict’s...
Bulgaria’s Ruse Hosts Second Edition of Ice Sculptures Festival
The Bulgaria city of Ruse hosts a festival of ice sculptures on Svoboda (Liberty) square between December 14 and 22. The Ruse Ice Fest will bring together sculptors from eight countries – Bulgaria, Belgium, France, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Russia and Ukraine. This is the second edition of the festival and it will be twice larger in size...
Aleksander Kwasniewski: For Bulgaria, Poland Refugee Problem Is Artificial
Novinite has interviewed Aleksander Kwasniewski, who served as President of Poland between 1995 and 2005. Having been Poland’s only reelected head of state, he played an active part in the country’s accession into the European Union and NATO, which both happened during his terms in office. Kwasniewski was in Bulgaria for a conference...
