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Boyana Church Meets All UNESCO Criteria, Says National Museum of History's Inkova
Inclusion on the UNESCO World Heritage List demands that a site satisfy at least six criteria, including uniqueness, links to significant events and interaction with the environment, National Museum of History Boyana Church branch head Mariella...

Seven Balkan Countries Take Part in 4th Balkan Business Forum
Representatives of seven Balkan countries take part in the Balkan Business Forum organized by the Bulgarian-Turkish Chamber of Commerce and Industry here on Saturday. The Forum brings together for the fourth consecutive year entrepreneurs,...

Road tourism without a traffic light - Why the recording of arrivals stopped
A significant gap is being created this year in the recording of road tourism in Greece, as there are no longer any official statistics on road arrivals in the country. The reason is the full integration of Bulgaria into the Schengen Zone as of...

Albania Joins the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking
Following the 49th Governing Board meeting of the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, which took place today in Luxembourg, Albania became the 36th participating state to join the initiative, further strengthening Europe’s leadership in supercomputing. The...

CCHF Case Detected in Greece; Health Authorities Issue Advisory
The National Public Health Organization of Greece (EODY) has confirmed a domestic case of Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) in a village within the municipality of Elassona, in the regional unit of Larissa, Thessaly. The patient, a man over...

Minister Lipavský Presented the Gratias agit Awards for 2025
26.06.2025 / 14:11 | Aktualizováno: 26.06.2025 / 14:33 On Thursday 26 June 2025 at the Czernin Palace, Minister of Foreign Affairs Jan Lipavský presented the Gratias Agit Prizes to important personalities and organisations that have contributed to...

Syrian teenager charged over plot against Taylor Swift concerts
German prosecutors said on Friday they had filed charges against a Syrian youth and alleged ISIS supporter linked to a 2024 attack plot on a Vienna concert by US pop megastar Taylor Swift. The suspect, named only as Mohammad A., was accused of...

Proposed defence spending hike to 5% of GDP exposes divisions among Nato members
Nato leaders are poised to endorse a landmark agreement to raise the alliance's collective defence investment target to 5% of GDP, as the Alliance faces mounting global security threats. The endorsement, expected at the Nato summit in The Hague on...

At Christo and Jeanne-Claude Centre in Gabrovo, BTA Launches Its New LIK Issue Dedicated to Pioneering Artistic Duo
BTA launched Wednesday the June issue of its LIK magazine paying tribute to Bulgarian-born pioneering art duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude. 2025 celebrates the artists’ 90th birth anniversary. It also marks three major anniversaries related to the...

A1 Group, SPI International Partner to Expand Premium TV & SVOD Distribution Across Southeast Europe
A1 Group and SPI International, a global media company, unveiled a strategic, long-term partnership designed to enhance how content is delivered, distributed, and experienced across Southeast Europe. The agreement outlines the technical...

A1 Group, SPI International SE Europe partnership
A1 Group and SPI International have announced a strategic, long-term partnership designed to enhance how content is delivered, distributed, and experienced across Southeast Europe. The agreement outlines the technical distribution of all SPI...

A1 Group and SPI International unite in strategic alliance
Austrian telco A1 Group and media company SPI International unveiled a strategic, long-term partnership designed to enhance how content is delivered, distributed and received across Southeast Europe. The agreement outlines the technical...

Bulgaria to Draft National Defense Investment Plan in Line with NATO’s 5% Target
At the NATO summit in The Hague, Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov confirmed that Bulgaria will develop and adopt a national defense investment plan aligned with the Alliance’s new target of 5% defense spending by 2035. Speaking after the...
Ireland has third lowest childhood vaccine coverage among high-income nations
IRELAND HAS THE third lowest childhood vaccine coverage among high-income nations globally. It also has the sixth lowest coverage among the countries on the European continent and the second lowest among western European nations. And while there’s...

LONG READ: Nato summit in The Hague is all about the money, not about Ukraine
The collected membership of Nato meets in The Hague on June 25 for a cutdown version of the annual gathering, where Ukraine has been dropped from the agenda and the only thing that will be discussed is increasing defence spending to 5% of GDP, at...

CoA leads int'l meet on public debt management trends
MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines' audit commission led this year's meeting of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (Intosai) Working Group on Public Debt (WGPD) held in Bucharest, Romania. The hybrid meet last week,...

Global uncertainty causes FDI to plummet in Emerging Europe
Foreign direct investment (FDI) in Central, Eastern and Southeast Europe has fallen to its lowest level in five years, according to a new report by the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (wiiw). The drop is a sign of waning...

SAI Philippines leads international meet on global trends in public debt management and the role of SAIs
The Commission on Audit (CoA), the Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of the Philippines, led the 2025 Annual Meeting of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) Working Group on Public Debt (WGPD) held in Bucharest,...

Philippines leads meet on global trends in public debt management
MANILA, Philippines — The Commission on Audit (COA), the Supreme Audit Institution (SAI) of the Philippines, led the 2025 Annual Meeting of the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) Working Group on Public Debt (WGPD)...
Kinterra Capital joins bidding for NWC
Move over, Central Asia Metals – New World Resources has a new suitor in Kinterra Capital Terra Uranium is preparing to drill this year at the Spire, Horizon and HawkRock projects in the Athabasca Basin Ausgold is expanding the footprint of its...