Bulgaria’s Irina Bokova has slipped from third to fifth position after the second vote for the position of UN Secretary General with 7 votes.
Former Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Guterres is still in the lead with 11 votes, followed by Serbia's former foreign minister Vuk Jeremic. The closed-door votes at the UN Security Council will continue until one of the 11 candidates receives the support of the 15 council members; seven of the candidates are from Eastern Europe.
Together with PM Rosen Zhelyazkov we discussed the EU plan for a new Black Sea strategy which the European Commission will present soon, announced EU Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, who is paying an official visit to Sofia . EU..
In an interview with public service TV BNT, Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos, who is on a working visit to Bulgaria, stated that Ukraine and the Ukrainian people very much wanted to become part of the EU and that at this rate we can hope to see..
Half of the companies from the Bulgarian Industrial Capital Association say that the tariffs on the import of commodities announced by US President Donald Trump are not going to affect their businesses directly. One-third of the employers..
Finance Minister Temenuzhka Petkova has announced that Bulgaria is ready to join the eurozone. She made the statement at a business breakfast hosted by..
The reactors intended for Bulgaria's unrealised second nuclear power plant project - Belene - will not be sold. This was announced to journalists by..
In Sofia's Zaharna Fabrika neighbourhood, in the Ilinden municipality, the authorities have begun demolishing illegal structures inhabited by members of..
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