The EU General Affairs Council has decided to grant Ukraine and Moldova the status of candidate countries, reads a draft decision which will be approved by the EU leaders on June 23, Ukrainian news agency UNIAN reported.
Russia is conducting military exercises with simulated missile attacks against Estonia, the Ministry of Defense of Estonia announced. A Russian Mi-18 helicopter is alleged to have entered the Estonian airspace for two minutes without permission on June 18. Estonia said the provocation against a NATO member was being made deliberately by Moscow ahead of the Alliance's summit in Madrid and after Lithuania’s decision to ban the transit of some goods by rail to Kaliningrad.
“We stand by our NATO allies and we stand by Lithuania”, State Department Spokesperson Ned Price said. “Specifically our commitment to NATO’s Article Five- the premise that an attack on one would constitute an attack on all- that commitment on the part of the United States is ironclad”, Ned Price said further, AFP reports. Earlier, Nikolay Patrushev, Russia’s Security Council Secretary, threatened Lithuania with serious consequences if the Baltic country bans exports of goods to the exclave of Kaliningrad.
Foreign Minister Georg Georgiev today received at the Foreign Ministry Susan Falatko, who arrived in Sofia a few days ago as Charge d'Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria. A statement from the Foreign Ministry said that during the meeting, Minister..
Next week, the Podkrepa Trade Union will begin a series of meetings with parliamentary groups in the National Assembly on the 2025 state budget, BTA reported. During the talks, the unions will offer their views on the increase in salaries in the budget..
Funds will be found for both procedures – “Hot Lunch” and “Home Care”, which are among the most sought-after measures to support the most vulnerable members of society. During the parliamentary control sitting earlier today, in response to a..
Household electricity prices will not go up with the planned liberalization of the electricity market for household consumers as of 1 July this year,..
Twenty-five children and young people who survived kidnapping by the terrorists from Hamas in the tunnels under Gaza, or whose parents are still held..
Sunday will be cloudy. A cold atmospheric front from the west will bring rainfalls. In the western mountainous regions of Bulgaria,..
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