Macedonian Deputy Prime Minister in charge of the European Integration Teuta Arifi will visit Bulgaria tomorrow (11 April). Arifi will meet with Bulgarian FM Nikolay Mladenov and Minister of European Funds Management Tomislav Donchev. After the meetings, a press conference will be held on 13:30 local time.
Read More »Bulgaria and Moldova to sign agreement on cooperation in case of disasters
The Bulgarian and Moldovan governments decided to sign an agreement about cooperation in case of disasters. Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov has been assigned to carry on with the negotiations. The deal will be signed when the Moldovan Prime Minister Vlad Filat will pay a visit to Sofia on 19 …
Read More »Greek expected to confirm snap election for May 6
Lucas Papademos, the Greek PM, is expected to announce on Wednesday the snap election date for May 6. Papademos will meet later today with the country’s president, Karolos Papoulias, and ask for elections to take place 18 months ahead of regularly scheduled elections.
Read More »US embassy in Bulgaria to launch new visa renewal program
The US Embassy in Sofia (Bulgaria) will adopt a new program with the objective to ease the visa renewal process. According to the new program, all bulgarian citiziens
Read More »Bulgarian ambassador to Albania hands letters of credence to President
Dimitar Arnaudov has handed over his letters of credence as an ambassador of Bulgaria to Albania to President Bamir Topi. Arnaudov discussed with the Albanian President about bilateral relations and the European prospects of the Western Balkan countries, including Albania. The two underlined that bilateral cooperation should enhance in fields …
Read More »Greek PM could ask for Greek parliament dissolution
Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos will meet with President Karolos Papoulias on Wednesday afternoon. Papademos is leading the Greek interim government since November 2011.
Read More »Serbian PM met National Council of Switzerland speaker
Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic and National Council of Switzerland President Hansjorg Walter met on Tuesday. The two expressed the willing of the two sides to continue
Read More »Dodik says: “Bosnia was never state, Serbs were also victims”
Milorad Dodik, the president of the Serb Republic (RS), said on Monday that the recent commemoration of the war in Sarajevo was another attempt to assign guilt only to Serbs. He said he does not oppose the remembrance of victims of the war, Muslim and Serb, but he thinks that …
Read More »Japan is interested to improve economic activity in Bulgaria
Japan’s PM Yoshikiko Noda told Bulgarian Parliamentary Speaker Tsetska Tsacheva that his country wishes to improve business activity in Bulgaria if the business climate gets better. Tsetska Tsacheva stressed that Bulgaria will make efforts to improve bilateral relations in fields such as business and tourism. Noda said further that a …
Read More »Macedonia ruling party submits new lustration law
Macedonia’s ruling coalition submitted a draft of the new Lustration law on Tuesday to the parliament which aims to dismiss ex-police informants from public offices. This comes after the Constitutional Court scrapped in late March the twelve controversial provisions of the existing law, which narrowed its scope.
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