News archive of July 2018

At the age of 72 the former director of the Historical Museum Prof. Bozhidar Dimitrov has assed.
In March 2017, he was admitted to a hospital with a suspicion of a heart attack.

 Bozhidar Dimitrov was a long-time director of NHM, author of dozens of books devoted to Bulgarian history.

British petroleum giant BP has started operating a $28-billion pipeline in Azerbaijan to supply gas to Turkey and elsewhere in Europe, the company said July 2.    

The European Parliament will meet in Strasbourg this week with Prime Minister Boyko Borisov's report on the work of the first Bulgarian presidency of the Council of the EU.

Relief measures agreed with Greece's official creditors to help render its debt load sustainable will help smoothen the country's return to market financing, the Bank of Greece said in a monetary policy report on Monday.

But it warned that in the longer term, debt sustainability hinges on maintaining the fiscal and reform effort and further debt relief.

Several hundred Greeks protested in Athens and Thessaloniki against the recent agreement with neighbouring Macedonia over its name.

The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office on July 2 issued detention warrants for 68 suspects linked to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETÖ).

Montenegro’s authorities said they will join Serbia and Kosovo in supporting the establishment of the RECOM fact-finding commission on the 1990s wars in the Balkans.

Thousands of people protested on Sunday in Chisinau against the recent invalidation of the mayoral election in Moldova's capital.

The rally was organised by the pro-European Action and Solidarity Party, PAS, led by Maia Sandu, and the Dignity and Truth Platform, PDA, led by Andrei Nastase.

Greece's largest lender Piraeus Bank said on Monday it agreed to sell a pool of unsecured non-performing loans (NPLs) to APS Investments for around 50 million euros, confirming what banking sources told Reuters last month.

The exercise was held June 19-28 at the Rayevsky training ground in Russia's Novorossiysk region, the Serbian Ministry of Defense (MoD) has announced.