Luxembourg

EU governments have a duty to help the flood of migrants arriving in Europe and not cave in to ?populist? demands to turn them back, European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker said Aug. 5.

The EU institutions are looking for conference interpreters with Czech, Croatian, Lithuanian or Maltese as their main language to be recruited as permanent staff (AD5/AD7).

Airbus Group has told buyer nations of the A400M transporter  aircraft that it cannot deliver all of its high-tech defences according to plan, casting a shadow over some of its military uses as Europe battles growing instability on its borders. 

European Commission Vice-President in charge of Energy Union Maros Sefcovic is to visit Bulgaria on September 15.

The visit of Sefcovic to Bulgaria will be part of his Energy Union Tour, which was launched in May.

During the tour, he is visiting the member states of the EU to present the benefits of the union to each country.

The draw for the 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers, which was held in Saint Petersburg on Saturday, determined tough opponents for the Bulgarian men's national football team.

Bulgaria was drawn in qualification group A along with the teams of the Netherlands, France, Sweden, Belarus and Luxembourg.

Eight projects of six EU Member States will be the first to receive funding under the so-called Juncker Plan.

In the first quarter of 2015, Bulgaria had the third-lowest government debt to GDP ratio in the EU, at 29.6%, preceded by Estonia with 10.5% and Luxembourg with 21.6%, according to Eurostat data.

Yanis Varoufakis took to his blog (yet again!) to focus on what he claimed were European creditors’ “vindictive privatization plan for Greece”, as outlined in an article he wrote for the Project Syndicate, which bills itself as a global platform for statesmen, policymakers, intellectuals and activists.

Long-divided Cyprus has no better chance than now to strike a UN-brokered peace deal, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker told the Greek Cypriot parliament on July 17.

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg has ruled that the practice of the Bulgarian subsidiary of power distributor CEZ of placing electricity meters in districts inhabited predominantly by Roma higher than in other areas constitutes discrimination.