Section: Bulgaria
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...
President Rossen Plevneliev: EU is the most successful peace project
The European Union is a unique peace project, the most successful process of regional integration and the biggest area of human rights and freedoms worldwide, Bulgaria’s President Rossen Plevneliev said at a meeting with Bulgarian students and pupils on occasion of Europe Day marked on May 9. The European Union today is the biggest world...
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...
Prof. Elena Genova presents: The Samokov School of iconography
As public relations entered a new stage in the 18th and 19th century, different schools of art took shape in Bulgaria. That was the age of the Bulgarian National Revival; in Western Europe the 18th century was the Age of Enlightenment, a time when the national idea and the national-liberation struggles burgeoned. Education and culture flourished....
Gazprom launches new version of South Stream
A new variant of the South Stream gas pipeline project, from the coast of the Crimea peninsula to Bulgaria’s port of Varna, was launched by the head of Gazprom Export, Andrei Konoplyanik during the Central European Gas Forum in Bratislava. In this way the pipeline will be shorter and cheaper. The news was broken a weak after Bulgaria...
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 Vice PM Pavlo Rozenko supports idea for joint military forces with Bulgaria, Romania
The Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine Pavlo Rozenko termed the idea for creating a joint military brigade of Bulgaria, Romania and Ukraine “very timely and reasonable”, and this country a reliable partner. Asked by the Bulgarian National Radio how he sees Bulgaria’s role in such a brigade Rozenko said Bulgaria had always supported Ukraine and...
