Foreign and Commonwealth Office

The British Council has been active in Greece since 1939 and in those 80 years "our vision and goals have not changed," says Anastasia Andritsou in her first interview as director of the institution.

Permanent Under Secretary of the British Foreign Office Simon McDonald will visit Serbia on September 11 and 12.

A delegation of the House of Lords of the British Parliament will arrive here in late September, the Serbian government announced on Thursday.

At its regular meeting on Wednesday, the Bulgarian government adopted the national defence strategy.

The strategy is a result of last-year's mid-term review of the strategic document which has been in force since 2011.

The main changes to the document are related to the altered strategic security environment and the arising consequences.

Already bridging economic relations between Turkey and the United Kingdom for more than 100 years, the activities of the British Chamber of Commerce in Turkey (BCCT) have been gaining further momentum over the past two years, the BCCT said in a written statement on July 7. 

The British Bulgarian Business Association (BBBA) was formally launched Wednesday at a ceremony at the Residence of the British Ambassador Jonathan Allen, in the presence of some 180 potential members, and representatives of other Commercial Chambers both inside and outside of Bulgaria.

The British embassy in Sofia said that Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev is to meet Queen Elizabeth in London on March 18.

During his visit to the UK, Plevneliev will be accompanied by a business delegation who will attend a business forum organized by the UK department for trade and investment.