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As Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras looks to fortify relations between the Greek government and it neighbors within the Balkan nations, he will be heading to Sophia, Bulgaria on Monday. The purpose of his trip is to discuss mutually beneficial ventures...

The leaders of Greece and Bulgaria signed a deal on Monday in Athens that will allow Bulgaria to participate in a planned liquefied natural gas terminal at the port of Alexandroupolis in northeastern Greece. The project, which has strong support...

Greece will allow no one to illegally cross onto its territory, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis vowed on Tuesday as he toured Alexandroupolis and other border towns in Evros, close to the Turkish border. "Our morale is high and we are...

Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov stated on Monday that Greek-Bulgarian cooperation serves as an example for other neighbors. These remarks were made during his address to the 3rd Euro-Arab Summit in Athens. "We will always be good friends with Greece...

It is important that the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Greece finalize the name agreement," Bulgaria's Prime Minister Boyko Borisov told the Greek Reporter during the 73rd UN General Assembly in New York. "What is really important is the...

Turkey will not back down from its rights and interests said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after a meeting of Turkey's Security Council on Wednesday. After a four-and-a-half hour session in Ankara, the country's Security Council decided to not heed...

German Chancellor Angela Markel and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker pledged to offer assistance for the asylum services and with Frontex at the Greek-Turkish and Greek-Bulgarian borders during a quadrilateral meeting with Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Bulgaria's premier...

On Friday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov presented the Greece-Bulgaria agreement for the Sea To Sea rail link to the European Commission, President Jean-Claude Juncker. They both noted that it was an important project for...

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker was named honorary doctor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in a ceremony on Thursday evening. Juncker’s declaration has a special symbolism for the university “that is firmly oriented to modern Western way of thinking...

Bulgaria is to build a 100 km barbed wire fence along its border with Greece and Turkey and deploy thousands of border guards to prevent migrant flows. Along with the existing structure, the total fence will exceed 200 km, while...

Fearing a new influx of refugees if Ankara cancels the agreement with the European Union, Bulgaria is raising a new fence on its border with Greece and Turkey. According to a Deutsche Welle report, in the Bulgarian border town of...

"The Greek-Bulgarian High-Level Cooperation Council held on here on Monday will allow Greece and Bulgaria, two highly important countries of the Balkan peninsula, to make a significant new start toward establishing very close and constructive relations," Greece's Prime Minister...

Bulgaria has intercepted about 100 migrants who crossed its border with Greece illegally, the country’s Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said on Sunday. According to an AFP report, 56 Afghans and 40 Syrians who were hiding on a freight train coming...

Bulgaria is set to build a razor-wire fence along its southern border with Greece to stop possible migrant flows, Prime Minister Boyko Borisov said on Friday. "The major threat that I see at the moment is from the Greek border,...

Bulgaria has complained to Greece and notified Brussels about the continuing blockade of the Greek-Bulgarian border checkpoints as a result of the protests of Greek farmers. "We must defend the Bulgarian road carriers, we have alarmed Brussels about the problem,"...