Section: Bulgaria
Bulgaria Backs Idea for Gas Ring with Romania, Hungary, Slovakia
Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia have signed a joint declaration supporting the idea to link their countries’ gas transmission systems, Hungary’s Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó announced on Thursday evening. The idea is to build interconnections of existing gas supply infrastructure that would greatly increase the energy...
Tsipras Hopes to Agree Outlines of Fresh Aid Deal in Riga
Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is expected to meet German and French leaders in Riga this week to try to win consent for a joint statement that could give him more leeway in talks with international lenders and give a breath of air to his cash-strapepd government. Tsipras is expected to meet with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and...
Premier Borissov participates at Eastern Partnership summit
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borissov attends the fourth summit of the Eastern Partnership held on May 21 and 22 in Riga (Latvia). Presidents, Premiers and Foreign Ministers of the EU member states and the partner countries-Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine take part at the summit. Bulgaria is among the countries...
Bulgaria Engineering Union Refutes ‘Suspended Cooperation’ Claims
The Bulgarian engineering union has received no open letter from its Russian counterpart in which the latter declines cooperation.Asked by Novinite to comment, Iliya Keleshev, who heads the Bulgarian Branch Chamber – Machine Building, has denied reports which emerged earlier on Thursday that cooperation between the two bodies will not be...
Russian Business Body Declines Cooperation with Bulgaria over Sanctions
Russian engineering union Soyuzmash has refused to sign a cooperation agreement with its Bulgarian counterpart over Sofia’s tacit support for sanctions, TASS reported on Wednesday.In an open letter to the Bulgarian Branch Chamber – Machine Building signed by Soyuzmash head and MP Vladimir Gutenev, the association cites anti-Russian...
The world hangs between diplomacy and guns
After close to 10 years as a member of NATO, is the Alliance still a strategic priority for Bulgaria and is the country in a capacity to uphold its interests and to avail itself of the advantages this membership offers? These were questions put to discussion at a one-day conference organized by the Institute for Democracy and Stability in...
Russia-Crimea Bridge Already under Construction
Russian construction workers are already building a bridge that will link mainland Russia to the Crimean peninsula which the country incorporated last year. The news was first announced by a Crimean association called “Simferopol” (the administrative center of Crimea) which posted pictures of the works on Facebook.The 19-km bridge...
EU to Sign MoU with Ukraine on EUR 1.8 B Aid Tranche on Friday
European Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis will sign a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the third package of EU macreconomic assistance of EUR 1.8 B to Ukraine in Latvia’s capital Riga on Friday. The latest package of aid follows two similar programmes of a combined EUR 1.6 B disbursed between May 2014 and April 2015....
Russia Seeks No Further Delay to EU-Ukraine Trade Pact, Malmstrom Says
Russia didn’t seek a delay to the planned start of a free-trade pact between Ukraine and the EU at trilateral talks on Monday, EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said. Reuters quoted Malmstrom as saying that the three sides agreed in a joint statement after their talks in Brussels that the free-trade pact “will be provisionally...
US Senator McCain Declines Office of Ukraine President Adviser
US Republican Senator John McCain has turned down an invitation to be one of the advisors to Ukraine’s President Petro Poroshenko.This was announced in a statement published on McCain’s page on the website of the US Senate, with the Republican citing “provisions of the US Constitution concerning the interaction of Members of...
