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Police Find 14 Migrants Entering Greece Hidden Inside Truck

Greek police found on Wednesday 14 migrants hidden in a specially built crypt at the ceiling of a truck that entered the country from Bulgaria. The two 48-year-old Bulgarian traffickers were arrested after the inspection of the vehicle which stopped...

Authorities to Audit 70 Greek Businesses Based in Bulgaria

The Independent Public Revenue Authority is conducting extensive audits on 70 Greek businesses based in Bulgaria, according to agency officials. The aim of the public revenue authority is to determine whether the companies are actually active in the neighboring...

Archaeologists Display Antiquities that Tell the Story of The Ancient Greek Civilization of Sozopol

Impressive artifacts from Ancient Greece found at the Apollonia Pontica antique necropolis in the Budjaka area of the Black Sea port town of Sozopol were on display at the 10th national exhibition called Bulgarian Archaeology, and the antiques on display...

Greece Remains Fourth Largest Foreign Investor in Bulgaria

Greece remained the fourth largest foreign investor in Bulgaria, after Austria, Holland and Germany, with total investments of 2.501 billion euros at the end of September 2016, from 2.441 billion in the same period in 2015, the Greek embassy...

Farmers in Greece Continue to Block Roadways for Roll Back of Tax Hikes

Greek Citizen Protection Minister Nikos Toskas urged farmers not to block the cross-border roads because there will be repercussions on an economy that is trying to stand on its feet, in an interview to Saturday newspaper Agora. "They should not...

CIA: USSR Wanted 'Republic of Macedonia' With Thessaloniki, Kavala, Alexandroupolis in 1950

A CIA document recently declassified and published on its website, refers to a Soviet Union plan to create a "Republic of Macedonia" including Thessaloniki, Kavala, Alexandroupolis and all Macedonia and Thrace regions. The document written in 1950, one year after...

Bulgarian Interior Minister Expresses Concern for Possible Greek Farmers’ Blockades

Bulgarian Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova expressed her concern for a possible road blockade at the borders by Greek farmers in a letter to Greek Alternate Minister for Civil Protection Nikos Toskas, media in Sofia reported on Wednesday. In her letter,...

Greek Police Dismantle Bulgarian Baby Smuggling Ring

Greek police have busted a Bulgarian criminal ring that was smuggling babies into Greece and selling them. According to a police statement, six arrests were made in Katerini, northern Greece on Wednesday. The baby smugglers were taking infants from low-income...

Survey Reveals Greek Businesses Set-up Ghost Companies in Bulgaria

The University of Bristol has conducted a survey which shows that a large percent of the Greek companies in Bulgaria are actually nothing more that ghost companies created to evade taxes. The survey showed that of the 14,000 Greek-owned companies...

Earthquake Strikes at Kilkis

A magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck Kilkis, an industrial area in northern Greece at 14:12 (local time) on Thursday. The European Mediterranean Seismological Center, put the quake’s epicenter near Kristoni, 12km northeast of Polykastron. It was at a depth of...