Bulgaria

The presidents of labor unions described the gloomy picture of unemployment in Northern Greece at a meeting which took place in  Thessaloniki in the framework of the TIF. As they said, illegal and uninsured work reigns, while unemployment rates have...

Greece and Bulgaria have agreed to open the new Makaza border crossing point on the Bulgarian-Greek border for vehicles weighting less than 3.5 metric tons. The Regional Governor of Kardzhali, Biser Nikolov, told Darik radio Saturday he expected that the...

Greece will decide on Aug. 19 whether to open a new border crossing point on the Bulgarian-Greek border known as Makaza which connects the cities of Komotini and Alexandroupoli in Thrace, Greece, with Haskovo and Kardzhali in Bulgaria. The Mazaka...

Today the Bulgarian Council of Ministers approved the launch of the opening of the Makaza border checkpoint on the Bulgarian-Greek border, which links the Bulgarian town Kardzhali to Komotini. According to the Bulgarian press, which gave wide publicity to the...

According to the Bulgarian National Radio, the Greek Boxing Federation has uncovered a fraud concerning counterfeit boxing diplomas issued by the National Sports Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria, which is considered to be one of the most prestigious sports schools...

In the last years, hundreds of Greek clothing companies have been transferred to other countries in the Balkans, where the labor cost is lower and tens of thousands of workers in the production line of Greek garments can be...

The scale of Greece's crushing economic crisis and unrelenting austerity measures is showing in how many people are fleeing the country in search of work and a better life elsewhere, particularly Germany. The number of Greek immigrants to Germany soared...

More than 120 000 Bulgarian residents plan to spend the Easter holidays in Greece, obviously undisturbed by the economic turmoil in the neighboring country. Traffic through Bulgaria-Greece border checkpoints increased sharply on Wednesday morning, the most intensive being at the...

Bulgarian officials presented an outrageous map according to which Thrace belongs to Bulgaria. The Greek Ministry of Defense reacted strongly. Air Marshal Evaggelos Tournas sent a protest letter to his Bulgarian counterpart, Air Vice Marshal Constantin Popov after the inaccurate...

Once a rising economic power in the Balkans, a crushing economic crisis has stripped Greece of much of its wealth and pushed to ahead of only neighbors Romania and Bulgaria among the poorest countries in the European Union. Greece is...