Kristalina Georgieva

The European Commission proposed on Wednesday a draft EU budget for 2016, amounting to EUR 143.5 B.

The budget is aimed to support the recovering European economy and help improve lives in Europe and beyond, the Commission's press service reports.

EU Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva was appointed as co-chair of the newly-established UN High-Level Panel on Humanitarian Financing.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced the establishment of the panel on Thursday, the UN News Centre reports.

Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev is due to attend the Annual Forum of Local Authorities of Southeast Europe as the event is entering into its third day.

The forum, which is organized by the Network of Associations of Local Authorities of South-East Europe (NALAS) and the City of Plovdiv, kicked off Saturday.

European Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva on Sunday voiced concern about the political crisis in Macedonia and urged all parties involved to show restraint.

European Commission Vice-President Kristalina Georgieva advised Bulgaria to introduce a transparency register similar to that established by the EU.

Georgieva pointed that the Commission introduced a transparency register this year and if a Commissioner is meeting a private organisation or NGO it has to appear on the register.

EU Commission Vice President Kristalina Georgieva is Bulgaria's most influential personality on Twitter, a recent poll has shown.

A survey carried out by Darik Radio and Bulgarian telecom Vivacom is aimed at showing which are the Bulgarian social media users whose posts are most shared, liked or retweeted.

Bulgaria's Kristalina Georgieva "has many wondering whether she might seek" to become United Nations Secretary General when Ban Ki-moon leaves office at the end of next year, politico.eu has said.

Subway to the Sofia Business Park in Mladost 4 has been launched today.

The new segment of the underground network is 3-kilometer long with three new stops - Aleksandar Malinov, Akad. Aleksandar Teodorov- Balan and Business Park.

The total cost of the project amounts to EUR 44 M or a little less than EUR 15 M per kilometer.

BELGRADE - EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides welcomed Serbia's commitment to becoming a fully-fledged EU member and its major contribution to political and economic stability in the Western Balkans in a meeting with Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.

A Bulgarian man living in Houlton, US ha been accused of sending emails containing death threats to "a member of the European Commission", local media reports suggest.

According to The Sun Journal, Dushko Detelinov Vulchev, 38, allegedly wrote an email "to a Bulgarian economist and administrator who is a member of the European Commission".