Bulgarian nationals visiting neighbouring Greece this week will have to carry enough cash to pay for goods and services after Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced a bank holiday and the introduction of capital controls.
The decision by Athens to shut down banks in the country this week has no legal force outside Greece and cannot be applied to Bulgaria, the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) has said.
Westinghouse Electric Company and eight European consortium partners today announced that they have received EUR 2 million in funding from the European Union (EU) to establish the security of supply of nuclear fuel for Russian-designed reactors in the EU.
Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev stated on Sunday that the country will rely on Azerbaijan for achieving a greater diversification of its energy supplies.
According to the latest figures of the National Statistical Institute (NSI), which were released on Monday, Bulgarians completed more than 483 000 trips abroad in May.
Bulgaria’s EU funds absorption has decelerated over the past two weeks, sending the country one place down in the ranking, from 23 to 24, out of the EU-28.
The demolition of the illegal residential buildings in Garmen has now been completed, as reported by Focus information agency.
After they had been given an hour to leave their illegal residential buildings, Roma people in Garmen started demolishing their houses by themselves.
Subsidized job creation is costly and inefficient, according to a survey of Bulgaria’s Ministry of Labor and Social Policy on the impact of the government money spent on boosting employment rates.
The demolition of the first four illegal buildings in the Roma neighbourhood of the Bulgarian village of Garmen should begin on Monday.
Bulgaria’s Health Ministry plans to introduce a new tax of 3-10% on unhealthy food products and energy drinks.
Bulgaria claimed ten medals and finished 27th in the medal ranking of the First European Games, which took place in Baku between June 12 and 28.
The Bulgarian men's volleyball team on Sunday defeated Cuba for a second time in 24 hours in a FIVB World League match in Varna, Bulgaria.
Some 500-550 Bulgarians a year become victims of human trafficking, according to official statistics, as cited by Kamelia Dimitrova, Secretary of Bulgaria’s National Commission for Combating Trafficking in Human Beings.
A total of 120 Syrian nationals hiding in a TIR truck were arrested upon entering Sofia in a police operation held early on Monday.
Bulgaria is among the countries with highest fiscal risk in the light of a possible Grexit scenario according to a Bloomberg report.
It should be of great concern in the West that Bulgaria is one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's targets as he is trying to "reassemble as much of the former Soviet Union as he can," the WSJ said on Sunday.
"I say to the Greek people, you should not commit suicide because you are afraid of death.
Egypt's public prosecutor Hisham Barakat has died from wounds sustained in a bomb attack on his convoy, AP reported on Monday.
A Greek government official has confirmed Greece will be unable to make a EUR 1.6 B debt payment due to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) on Tuesday, Reuters reported on Monday.
Greece’s left-wing government plans to ask the country’s citizens on Sunday whether to accept or reject the demands of its creditors for extended bailout funding needed to avert a default.
The European Commission said on Monday it finds the capital controls imposed by the Greek authorities to be ‘justified’ but called for the reinstatement of the free movement of capital as soon as possible.
Greece's government "made people [in the country] imagine wrong things after last Friday's discussions," EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said.
Greek-owned banks in the Balkans region were open on Monday, paying out cash and issuing loans -- in contrast to Greece, where a bank holiday and capital controls went into force, Reuters reported.
Macedonia's central bank on Sunday demanded that all banks in the country withdraw their deposits held at Greek lenders, local media say.
Greece will receive a new bailout proposal from the EU Commission later on Monday, AFP says, citing Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici.
The Greek government assured that foreign tourists staying in the country will be able to withdraw money and make transactions if in possession of a credit card issued in their home country.
Novinite has interviewed H.E. Mari?n Jakub?cy, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Slovak Republic to the Republic of Bulgaria since 2013.
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