Section: Bulgaria
Ukrainian Prime Minister to Submit Resignation Next Week
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk will submit his resignation to the country’s parliament next week. Yatsenyuk made this announcement on TV on Sunday, saying that his resignation will be tabled to parliament on Tuesday. Yatsenyuk blamed the failure of politicians to “enact real changes”. He has served as prime minister of Ukraine...
Bulgaria Socialist Leader Urges ‘Balanced’ Policy ahead of Russia Visit
The leader of Bulgaria’s socialist party (BSP) has called for a “more balanced” foreign policy of the country, suggesting the government needs to adopt its position on the sanctions against Russia. BSP leader Mihail Mikov has voiced his surprise at the fact that Bulgaria ais not working to improve ties with the Russian...
NATO-Russia Council to Meet on Ukraine Crisis, Afghanistan
The NATO-Russia Council will meet in the next two weeks for the first time since 2014 to duscuss the Ukraine crisis. “Following consultations with Russia, we have agreed to hold a meeting of the NATO-Russia Council at Ambassadorial level,” NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, said in a statement on Friday. The meeting at the NATQ...
Dutch Reject EU-Ukraine Association Agreement in Referendum
The Netherlands has rejected the ratification of Ukraine’s association agreement with EU in a referendum, marking a victory for eurosceptics. The referendum was called after a group of Dutch eurosceptics collected more than 400,000 signatures on a petition calling for a public vote to take place. The Dutch citizens were asked to answer on...
Romanian President Recalls Ambassador to Bulgaria
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis has recalled the country’s ambassador to Sofia Anton Pacuretu. Pacuretu is one of fourteen ambassadors, who were recalled with a decree signed by Iohannis on Tuesday. Pacuretu has served as Romanian ambassador in Bulgaria since 2009. Among the other recalled ambassadors are those in Turkey, Spain, Moldova,...
Leaked Panama Papers Shed Light on Global Offshore Industry
An international consortium of media outlets has published an extensive investigation into the offshore financial dealings of political leaders, movie celebrities and sports starts based on a huge volume of documents reportedly leaked by an anonymous source. A year-long worldwide media investigation into a trove of 11.5 million documents, leaked...
Bulgarian convent in Istanbul becomes museum
One of the landmark buildings of the Bulgarian National Revival – the convent in Istanbul, will be turned into a museum. It is located on the Golden Horn, opposite to the famous Bulgarian St. Stephen Church – the only iron church in the Orthodox world. The church and convent were built in the mid 19th century, when there was a large...
Bulgaria’s Adolescents Show Alarming Rates of Smoking, Drinking in WHO Report
Bulgaria tops or is ranks high in lists of countries based on the share of adolescent drinkers and smokers, according to a recent World Health Organization (WHO) study on youth behavior.The WHO paper includes 40 countries, most of them in Europe, but also Israel and Canada. As many as 220 000 people aged 11, 13 and 15 have taken part in the WHO...
Bulgaria PM ‘Bans’ Talk about Presidential Elections until Summer
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov on Thursday said he had “forbidden” the issue of presidential elections until June. The vote is due in the autumn. An open race for the office of the President, an office of predominantly ceremonial functions, is not expected to begin before the summer, but some parties are already putting...
Bulgaria Expands Quota for University Students from Bulgarian Diaspora
The government in Sofia has decided to increase 2.5 times the quota for university students from the Bulgarian diaspora living mostly in European countries. One thousand ethnic Bulgarians from countries with large Bulgarian diaspora such as Ukraine, Serbia, Moldova, Albania and Kazakhstan will be able to apply for studying for the degrees of...
