Romania

Former conservative New Democracy minister Michael Liapis has put up his Mykonos mansion for sale. The same former, arrested at beachside Loutsa in December 2013 for traveling with fake license plates, now lives in Greece and Romania.

Bulgaria's former intelligence chief Kircho Kirov was sentenced to 10 years in jail on August 7 for misappropriation of public funds and violations of financial discipline, prosecutors said. 

Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania and Latvia topped the list of number of amenable deaths in 2012, the EU's statistical body Eurostat has said.

According to the agency's latest publication, France, Spain, Italy and the Netherlands are the EU members which the lowest amenable mortality rates.

A Bulgarian company is to start assembling Skyleader 600, a variant of a two-seat civil utility plane produced Czech manufacturer Jihlavan Airplanes, near the capital Sofia.

Romania's tax authority said on Thursday it is intensifying the fight against tax evasion by targeting music stars, moneylenders and company owners to investigate the origins of their revenues.

Bulgaria, Romania and Serbia on Thursday discussed technical aspects of a joint project to connect their telecommunications networks in the border regions.

Bulgarian hypermarket chain for baby and children's goods Hippoland begins its overseas expansion, with a store set to open in Romania's Bucharest on August 1.

The Bucharest-based store, located in the Auchan commercial center in the Drumul Taberei district, spans an area of over 1400 square meters.

Swiss-Irish food giant ARYZTA AG has acquired bakery chain Fornetti, which has sites in Bulgaria.
The value of the deal was not disclosed.

ARYZTA AG, a global leader in the frozen bakery segment, currently has operations and factories on four continents.
The shares of the company are traded at the stock exchanges in Zurich and Ireland.

Romania and Bulgaria are looking for new builders of the 26 kilometer Giurgiu-Ruse gas pipeline.

A poster campaign by anti-immigrant Sweden Democrats has divided the opinions in downtown Stockholm.

Posters hanging from the ceiling of the entrance of a subway station in Sweden's capital read: "Sorry about the mess here in Sweden. We have a serious problem with forced begging!"