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      Choco Leibniz heiress apologises over Nazi forced labour remarks
      May16

      Choco Leibniz heiress apologises over Nazi forced labour remarks

      Verena Bahlsen says comments were ‘thoughtless’ amid calls for a boycott of biscuit brand The heiress of a German biscuit empire has apologised for stirring outrage with remarks that appeared to play down the hardship suffered by dozens of people forced to work at the family business under Nazi rule.Verena Bahlsen, whose father owns the...

      Russell T Davies’s Years and Years is bold and brilliant
      May15

      Russell T Davies’s Years and Years is bold and brilliant

      What audacity is here. What heart, what freedom, and what brilliance. Russell T Davies has said that his new series, Years and Years, is hard to describe succinctly, and that this is a worry to him because “I like a one-line pitch”. I like one-line pitches, too – I didn’t spend my twenties writing headlines for nothing – but having devoted...

      Can Russia and the US be friends?
      May15

      Can Russia and the US be friends?

      Description Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, in July 2017 Credits Saul Loeb/Getty Images Alt Text trump putin Vladimir Putin meets with officials from Washington in bid to restore good relations In …read more Source: The...

      Registration of foreign seasonal workers starts in Bulgaria
      May15

      Registration of foreign seasonal workers starts in Bulgaria

      Until May 15, 2030 foreigners have been registered as seasonally employed in Bulgaria. This is 2 times more in comparison to the same period in 2018, said Social Minister Biser Petkov. Ukrainians predominate – 1470. About 400 Moldovan citizens are also applying under the Labor Migration Agreement signed between Bulgaria and Moldova. At the...

      Poroshenko warns against ‘revenge’ of oligarch forces
      May15

      Poroshenko warns against ‘revenge’ of oligarch forces

      Outgoing Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko made a plea on Tuesday to his successor, the comedian and political novice Volodymyr Zelenskiy. “Please don’t allow Putin, don’t allow oligarchs, to ruin what we have done for these five years, and the results we have reached and the price we have paid for this opportunity and possibility...

      In Brussels, ForMin Melescanu emphasises importance of EU’s Eastern Partnership
      May15

      In Brussels, ForMin Melescanu emphasises importance of EU’s Eastern Partnership

      In Brussels on Tuesday, Romania's Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu attended a high-level conference of the European Union's Eastern Partnership that marked its 10th anniversary. According to a press statement released by the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MAE), the event – organised by the European Commission and the...

      Estonian minister: EU must expand sanctions on Russia due to actions in Ukraine  – The Baltic Times
      May14

      Estonian minister: EU must expand sanctions on Russia due to actions in Ukraine – The Baltic Times

      TALLINN – In his remarks at the EU Foreign Affairs Council in Brussels on Monday, Estonian Foreign Minister Urmas Reinsalu called for…… …read more Source: The Baltic...

      Pompeo žádá Madurův odchod, vyzval k prolomení patu v Donbasu
      May14

      Pompeo žádá Madurův odchod, vyzval k prolomení patu v Donbasu

      Soči (Rusko) – Americký ministr zahraničí Mike Pompeo dnes na setkání v jihoruském Soči řekl šéfovi ruské diplomacie, že je čas, aby venezuelský vůdce Nicolás Maduro odešel z funkce…. …read more Source: České...

      Bulgaria and Ukraine resume work of intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation
      May14

      Bulgaria and Ukraine resume work of intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation

      The Deputy Prime Ministers of Bulgaria and Ukraine Mariyana Nikolova and Stepan Kubiv reached agreement to resume the work of the intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation which has not sat in nine years. Stepan Kubiv proposed the discussion of issues from the economic, tariff, military and educational sphere, the decentralization of...

      State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad bestows Bulgarian Woman of the Year 2018 award
      May14

      State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad bestows Bulgarian Woman of the Year 2018 award

      There is one female saint who is always depicted on Christian Orthodox icons wearing traditional dress – Zlata of Muglen. She lived in the 18th century in a small Bulgarian village near Muglen, on the territory of the Ottoman Empire and she never renounced the Christian faith she was born into. For the tenth year running, the State Agency for...