Section: Bulgaria
Putin, Kerry Vow to Cooperate in Solving Conflicts in Syria, Ukraine
Solving the conflicts in Syria and Ukraine were the main topics of discussion during the three-hour meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US State Secretary John Kerry in Moscow on Tuesday. Prior to meeting Putin, Kerry held talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, TASS news agency informs. Although no breakthroughs were...
Bulgarian Businesses ‘Should Be Able to Hire Foreign Nationals More Easily’
Businesses should be able to hire non-Bulgarian nationals more easily, the head of an employer union said on Monday. Regulatory requirements obligating businesses to employ non-Bulgarians offering salaries at least three times the country’s average should be removed, Vasil Velev, who heads the Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association...
Bulgaria-Russia Relations Can’t Be Shaken by Recent Events, Amb to Moscow Says
Close relations of friendship between Bulgaria and Russia no not depend on present-day developments after their history of 14 centuries, Sofia’s Ambassador to Moscow has said. Boyko Kotsev’s remarks are a response to comments by a Russian diplomat, who at a commemorative ceremony marking an anniversary of the battle for Pleven (in the...
Bulgarian Exports to Third Countries Record 0.8 % Increase in January-October
Between January and October 2015, Bulgarian exports to third countries amounted to BGN 13.6 B, representing an increase of 0.8 % compared to the same period in 2014. This is revealed by the latest figures of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), which were released on Thursday. The main trading partners of Bulgaria were Turkey, China, Serbia,...
Senate Confirms Eric Rubin as New US Ambassador to Bulgaria
The Senate confirmed on Wednesdy Eric Seth Rubin as the new US ambassador to Bulgaria. This was announced by the US embassy in Sofia in its Facebook profile. The hearing of the nominee before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee was held on December 2., with US President Barack Obama having appointed Rubin in September.Rubin is a career member...
Diplomat Magazine: Three Women from E. Europe in Race for UN’s Top Job
For the first time since the creation of the United Nations 70 years ago, female candidates are being mentioned among the likely successors of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, Venetia van Kuffeler writes in an article in the December-January issue of London-based Diplomat magazine. Bulgarian-born Irina Bokova and Kristalina Georgieva as well as...
Bulgarian Stream to replace South Stream?
Deputy Prime Minister Tomislav Donchev announced in parliament recently that Bulgaria was conducting negotiations with the European Commission on a possible construction, to the territory of the country, of a scaled-down version of the project for the delivery of Russian gas along South Stream via Bulgaria, a project that came to nothing....
Bulgaria and echo of NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels
At the beginning of the week at NATO Headquarters in Brussels a meeting of foreign ministers of member states of the alliance took place as a step in the preparation before the summit of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Warsaw in July 2016. Due to unprecedented challenges to international security, key decisions related to the further...
Tourism Minister: 4.5 Million Foreigners Visited Bulgaria Last Summer
Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova stated on Saturday that 4.5 million foreign tourists visited Bulgaria in the summer of this year, which represented a drop of 3.3 %. Angelkova added that according to expectations, the number of tourists from Ukraine and Russia decreased by 25 %. However there was a forecast for 30 % increase in the number of...
Russian Sanctions Will Not Bring Turkey to Its Knees – Turkish Ambassador to Bulgaria
According to Turkish ambassador to Bulgaria His Excellency Suleyman Gokce, the sanctions imposed by Moscow in response to the downing of the Russian Su-24 bomber by two Turkish F-16 fighter jets on the Turkish-Syrian border on November 24, will not bring Ankara to its knees. Gokce noted that Turkey is a great country, being the sixteenth largest...
