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Erotic Greek-Painted Vase Discovered in Bulgaria

Bulgarian archaeologists have unearthed an Ancient Greek vase featuring an erotic scene during excavations in the Black Sea town of Sozopol. The vase was found on Sunday during digs which first started in October 2011, and target the fortress wall on the Black Sea coast and the ruins of the St. Nikolas of Myra monastery. [...]

Greek Company Undertakes Construction of Struma Highway Lot 4 in Bulgaria

Greek company Aktor and the Bulgarian Road Infrastructure Agency signed a contract on Monday regarding the construction of road section Lot 4 of the Struma Highway connecting Bulgaria’s capital to its borders with Greece. The construction of the 15 km long road section will be inaugurated on April 5 and is expected to be finished [...]

Greek Students Receive Medals At SEEMOUS 2012 In Bulgaria

The Mathematical Society of Southeastern Europe announced the 6th International Mathematical Olympiad for first and second year university students. The Olympiad was hosted by the Union of Bulgarian Mathematicians in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, between March 6 and March 11, 2012. The Greek participation included 5 students from the Department of Mathematics of the National and Kapodistrian [...]

Strong Greek Presence at Tourism Exhibition in Bulgaria

Greece participated in the Tourism Exhibition “SPA & Holidays” in Sofia of Bulgaria, with an impressive stall presenting awesome pictures of the Parthenon and White Tower from the city of Thessaloniki. Bulgarian Minister of Economy, Energy, and Tourism, Traicho Traikov, praised the Greek stall in the exhibition during a meeting with the Greek ambassador to [...]

New Greek Ambassador Appointed to Sofia

In an official ceremony, the new Greek Ambassador of the Greek Republic to Bulgaria, Mr. Thrasivoulos Stamatopoulos, handed over his credentials on Wednesday to the President of the Balkan country, Rossen Plewneliew. The new Greek Ambassador to Sofia had recently been the permanent representative of Greece to NATO. Mr. Stamatopoulos, born in 1951, has graduated [...]

New Bulgarian President Calls on Greece To Follow His Country’s Fiscal Example

Newly elected Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev advised Greece to cut at least 100,000 jobs in the immediate future in order to find a way out off the crisis. At the same time he suggests that Greece should follow the example of Bulgaria in terms of stabilizing its deficit. In his interview with the German edition [...]