Section: Bulgaria
Russia Holds Drills in Black Sea Region Amid Ukraine Tensions
Russia is holding naval and surface-to-air missile drills in the Black Sea region amid tensions with Ukraine and the West over the capture of three Ukrainian naval ships and their crews off the coast of Crimea last month, Reuters reported.Two submarines, the Rostov-on-Don B-237 and the Stary Oskol B-262, practiced emergency deployments for...
Jens Stoltenberg: NATO and EU have common interest in Balkan stability
NATO and the EU have a common interest in stability in the Balkans, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said after the two-day meeting of Foreign Ministers of member states of the Alliance. He announced that Macedonia’s accession negotiations are now under way. NATO also expects to receive Bosnia and Herzegovina’s first plan for...
Deputy Prime Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva participates in meeting of NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs
Challenges to regional security, including in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, are one of the topics that NATO ministers will be discussing today and tomorrow in Brussels. The topic will be discussed in a joint session with Georgia and Ukraine. Issues of international security, transatlantic relationships, and Member States’ commitments...
Bulgaria Air Stopped its Flights To and From Odessa
Due to the declared military situation in Ukraine, the recommendations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and for the safety of the passengers, the national carrier “Bulgaria Air” stopped its flights between Sofia and Odessa until 16 December 2018 inclusive, according to the carrier’s website. Depending on the...
G20 Enters Final Day with Work to be Done on Bridging Divisions
The day will also see a highly anticipated meeting between US president Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping, whose nations have been embroiled in an escalating trade war with new US tariffs on Chinese goods set to take effect a month from now. The divisions among the world’s leading economies were evident from the moment...
December 1 – World AIDS Day
According to the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control and the World Health Organization, over two million people are infected with HIV in Europe. This means that every 17 seconds a person is infected with HIV or an average of 5,000 new infections per day. More than 150,000 new cases of HIV infection were reported in Europe in 2017,...
Bulgarian PM Borisov: A Threat of 40 Million Migrants from Africa Hangs over the EU
A threat from 40 million economic migrants from Africa hangs over the European Union. Prime Minister Boyko Borisov warned, Nova TV reported. From Morocco, the prime minister also expressed a sharp stance on the Russia-Ukraine conflict. Late in the evening Thursday, Borisov insisted on an urgent solution to the crisis and warned that tensions...
President Radev: We have no interest in militarization of Black Sea
The risk of escalation of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is real, but Europe should by no means be a hostage to Ukrainian domestic politics and ambitions. Therefore, it is important to understand that we have no interest in the militarization of the Black Sea, which would directly affect Bulgaria and I hope this conflict would end as...
Ukraine Bans Entry to Russian Adult Men: Border Service Chief
Ukraine has banned Russian adult men aged 16-60 years from entering Ukraine, the head of the border service Petro Tsygykal said in a televised meeting on Friday, quoted by Reuters. “Today, the entry of foreigners is limited – primarily citizens of the Russian Federation – non-admission of citizens of the Russian Federation aged...
Russia-Ukraine tension is an “enormous threat” to Bulgaria: Boyko Borissov
Prime Minister Boyko Borissov described the Russia-Ukraine tension as an “enormous threat” to Bulgaria. In a lecture at the Royal Diplomatic Academy of Morocco in Rabat, he compared the conflict in the Black Sea with the wars in the former Yugoslavia. In Boyko Borissov’s words, as has happened in the Balkans many times, one matchstick can...
