Tag Archives: Bulgaria

Bulgaria has waded into a 25-year-long dispute between Greece and FYROM regarding Macedonia’s name, saying that issue also concerns Bulgaria. Macedonia and Greece are in a renewed push to resolve their dispute. Greece objects to its northern neighbor using the name, saying it implies territorial claims on its own province …

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Once the austerity measures set in, thousands of Greek businesses moved their headquarters to Bulgaria to avoid over taxation. Now, Greece and Bulgaria agreed on a number of actions to tackle smuggling of goods across the borders and the tax avoidance of Greek companies who set up fictitious headquarters in …

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More than one third of the Greek population is at risk of poverty or social exclusion. We have been reading this since 2012, occasionally it is been officially confirmed by European statistics authorities like the Eurostat. In the first two years of bailout agreements, the rates were below 30%. But …

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Greece and Bulgaria signed a memorandum of cooperation to build rail connections between ports in Bulgaria and northern Greece. The agreement refers to the interconnection of the Greek ports of Alexandroupolis, KAvala and Thessaloniki with the Bulgarian ports of Varna and Burgas at the Black Sea as wells as with …

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The European Union should use military means to defend its external borders from migrants entering illegally, Bulgaria’s defense minister, Krasimir Karakachano, has said. Krasimir Karakachanov, whose far-right United Patriots party is a junior coalition partner in Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov’s government, said: “We cannot allow illegal immigrants to come to Europe …

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Greeks are the heaviest smokers in the European Union, a survey found. The survey results were  published by the European Commission for World No Tobacco Day. Thirty-seven percent of Greeks are smokers, according to the report, which also showed that Greece had the smallest proportion of people, 44 percent, who …

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The European Union is determined to stick to a deal with Turkey to stem the flow of undocumented migrants into the bloc, European Council President Donald Tusk said on Tuesday. Tusk, who met Bulgaria’s President Rumen Radev, welcomed Sofia’s efforts to boost security on its southeastern border with Turkey to …

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Thousands of Greeks have opened or registered their companies in Bulgaria,  Cyprus, Malta or in other neighboring countries with low tax rates in recent years in order to escape the over taxation in Greece. Now the  General Secretariat of Public Revenues targets exactly these companies and threaten the owners with …

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It is not a secret that under the bailout agreements, Greece’s self-employed are charged with higher taxes and social security contributions each and every year.  Many, especially from northern Greece,  have moved their business basis to neighboring Bulgaria for obvious reasons: 10% tax instead of 29%, low social security contributions, …

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has apparently suffered a megalomania attack, fell in delirium and claimed to expand Turkey’s borders to Greece’s Thrace, Thessaloniki, Aegean islands and the whole of Cyprus. But he claimed as well a bit from Bulgaria, Georgia, Syria and a large portion of Iraq. The mad …

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The Frontex has changed name: now it is called European Border and Coast Guard Agency. In a ceremony at the Bulgarian-Turkish border, the EU launched the new agency that will closely monitor the Europe’s old external borders. The new agency replaces Frontex, and is a “precipitous policy response” to last …

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Greek and Bulgarian police are to start joint patrols along the Greek-Bulgarian and Bulgarian-Turkish borders in a bid to prevent undocumented migrants from continuing their journeys via the so-called Balkan Route. Citizens’ Protection Minister Nikos Toskas discussed the matter with Bulgaria’s Interior Minister Rumiana Bachvarova during a recent visit to …

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Hundreds of trucks and cars are stuck at the key Greek-Bulgarian Promahonas border crossing, after a blockade by Greek farmers was met with a retaliatory blockage by angry Bulgarian truck drivers on the other side. the retaliation started at 11 a.m. on Wednesday. Greek media report Wednesday noon, of 600 …

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Italy, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria are seen as equally corrupt among EU countries, while Denmark is the least graft-prone country, according to the yearly corruption perception index published by Transparency International on Wednesday (3 December). The index scores and ranks countries around the world based on how corrupt their public …

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Police in Yorkshire revealed on Tuesday that a DNA test carried out on a Romanian young man in Cyprus has proved he is not Ben Needham, who disappeared in 1991. An anonymous source had handed in the video of the young man attending an event in a church next to a …

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..and there was light! The DNA-test confirmed that little blonde Maria is the biological daughter of Sasha Ruseva and her husband Atana Rusev, a Roma couple living in Nikoloevo in Bulgaria. The test result was announced on Friday afternoon, a week after the girl was removed by local police from …

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What??? The biological parents of “blonde angel” Maria are not blonde? How could this happen? Can a geneticist explain how did a dark-haired and dark-skinned Roma woman give birth not to one but to two little blonde Gypsy angels? Or aren’t they “blonde angels” anymore? Now that it was DNA-proven …

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“Maria is 4 years old. Her mother, a Bulgarian woman, gave the girl as newborn, because she could not afford to raise her. The deal was sealed outside a supermarket through a third person.” This is what the Roma couple claims about the little blond girl with angel eyes that …

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An Athens prosecutor ordered investigation on whether horsemeat was illegally imported from neighboring Bulgaria and sold as ‘beef’. While imports of horsemeat are not illegal in Greece, it is certainly illegal to sell them with false declaration and thus misleading consumers and committing fraud. According to daily Eleftherotypia, the Greek …

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 Prime Minister Antonis Samaras decided to apply the law. He sent riot police squads to open Halyvourgia in Aspropyrgos – a steel plant that halted its operation nine months ago, when the plants’ workers’ union went on strike to oppose reduced salary, enforced reduction of working hours and massive lay-offs. A …

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