Member states of La Francophonie

Some 8 thousand young people up to 29 years will be employed by Bulgarian businesses with money from the state by the end of the year under the youth employment program.

Bulgaria's caretaker Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has met with his Turkish and Macedonian counterparts during the General Debate at the 69th Session of the UN General Assembly in New York.

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Bulgaria and Egypt will enhance bilateral cooperation through implementing more joint projects, President Rosen Plevneliev and his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah el-Sisi agreed, Wednesday.

The Greek Foreign Ministry on Monday issued a terse response following questions about a visit last week by the deputy speaker of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Antonio Milososki, to Mount Olympus, where he and other FYROM citizens unfurled flags bearing the Vergina Sun, a symbol widely used in ancient Greece and adopted for use by FYROM on its national flag despite Greek pr

Italy is due to return to Greece on Monday 80 ancient coins that were seized by Italian authorities six years ago.

The handover of the silver and bronze coins is due to take place at the sidelines of a meeting of European Union culture ministers in Turin.

The coins date to between the 5th and 2nd centuries B.C. and are from Macedonia, specifically Halkidiki.

Greece’s unemployment rate dropped to 27 percent in June, compared to 27.1 percent in May, the country’s Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) announced on Thursday. The agency’s report showed that 1,303,884 people were out of work in June.

Bulgaria continues to be at the bottom at the EU ranking by research & development expenditure, registering R&D spending of 0.26% of GDP in 2013, compared to an EU average of 0.7% of GDP.

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The newly-published Global Competitiveness Report 2014-2015 said that Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia and Serbia had moved up in the world competitive rankings, while Croatia and Albania dropped a few positions.

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One day after a summit in Berlin called for a swift solution to the name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), the government in Athens Friday confirmed its support of ongoing talks.

Luxembourg Prime Minister Xavier Bettel took to Twitter on Thursday to insist that relations between him and Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and between the two countries “are perfect” after being on the receiving end of a homophobic tweet from an independent Greek MP.