Bulgaria, situated in the eastern Balkans, has been undergoing a slow and painful transition to a market economy since the ...

The cityscape of Bulgaria's capital has changed dramatically since 1989. But the building boom has paid scant regard to ...

SOFIA, Bulgaria (AP) — Bulgaria’s president on Wednesday mandated ... The proposed coalition commands 107 of the 240 seats in ...

The Construction Corps built much of Bulgaria's 20th-century infrastructure but was also used during the communist era to punish opponents of the regime and maintain control over ethnic minorities.

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Romania and Bulgaria have become full members of the ... held the six-month rotating presidency of the EU. Some one million ethnic Hungarians live in the Transylvania region of Romania, a legacy ...

Romania and Bulgaria have become full members of the European Union’s border-free Schengen area after scrapping land border controls in the bloc. The expansion was officially introduced at ...

Jan 1 (Reuters) - Romania and Bulgaria scrapped land border controls to become full members of the European Union's Schengen free-travel area on Wednesday, joining an expanded bloc of countries ...

On Wednesday, Bulgaria celebrated its entry into the Schengen area with ceremonies at key border crossings. At the Kulata-Promachonas checkpoint with Greece, caretaker Prime Minister Dimitar Glavchev, ...

Romania and Bulgaria had met the Schengen zone's technical requirements for membership since 2011. But "member states objected every time" they tried to join, analyst Valentin Naumescu told AFP.

The expansion of Schengen came after months of efforts to integrate Bulgaria and Romania into the zone by Hungary’s government as it held the six-month rotating presidency of the EU. Some 1 million ...