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AGERPRES correspondent Ruxandra Constantinescu reports: Besides building bridges among cultures, translations open gates to civilizations dominated by the force of a given language and to their cultural richness, suddenly making them available to anybody.

Bulgarian Environment Ministry has prescribed the controlled releases of reservoirs countrywide, the new Minister of Environment and Water Stanislav Anastasov informed.

Ukraine signed on Friday an historic free-trade agreement with the European Union that has been at the heart of months of violence and upheaval in the country, drawing an immediate threat of «grave consequences» from Russia.
Georgia and Moldova signed sim... ...

Bulgaria has answered back to comments EU Enlargement Commissioner Stefan Fuele made in a recent interview.

Fuele told EurActiv the accession of Bulgaria and Romania into the EU put the bloc's credibility into question.

In May 2014, the number of the trips of Bulgarian residents abroad was 427.5 thousand or by 18.1% above the registered in May 2013, the National Statistical Institute informs.

Bulgaria's Deputy Minister of Agriculture Byurhan Abazov has met with representatives of the Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia, Friday.

Prime Minister Victor Ponta on Friday hailed the signing by the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and Georgia of the Association Agreements with the European Union.

Hotel booking websites which are not legally registered and do not pay taxes are taking large amounts of money out of the country without any control, the Montenegrin tourism association said on Thursday.

State Secretary for European Affairs with Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE) on Thursday welcomed Murat Salim Esenli, permanent deputy undersecretary for European affairs with Turkey's Foreign Ministry.

By Stathis Kousounis

Athens hotels took the European lead in the growth of their occupancy rates and average revenues per available room last month, according to a British survey seen by Kathimerini.