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Bulgari is expanding its footprint in India to take advantage of strong growth and favorable demographics, Bulgari Chief Executive Officer Jean-Christophe Babin said

Hungary has asked the European Union's executive to open a legal procedure against Bulgaria over a tax it recently imposed on Russian natural gas passing through its territory, a government minister said on Friday. Bulgaria believes the tax, which it levied in October, will reduce the privileged position of Russia's state-owned energy company Gazprom in southeastern Europe and deter Russian influence in the region. But the tax has angered Bulgaria's neighbour Serbia, as well as fellow EU member Hungary, which are heavily dependent on Russian gas coming mostly via Turkey and Bulgaria through the TurkStream pipeline. In a Facebook video, Hungary's minister for EU affairs, Janos Boka, said he had sent a letter to the European Commission urging it to launch an infringement procedure against Bulgaria, the first potential step the bloc can use to ensure its laws are upheld by member states. Boka complained that Bulgaria had imposed the tax without consulting first with Hungary, and that

Bulgaria has agreed to provide the Ukrainian army with some 100 armoured personnel carriers, marking a turnaround in its policy on sending military equipment to the country to aid Kyiv's battle against the Russian invasion. The parliament in Sofia late Friday approved by 148 votes to 52 the government's proposal to make the first shipment of heavy military equipment to Ukraine since the beginning of the war. This equipment is no longer necessary for the needs of Bulgaria, and it can be of serious support to Ukraine in its battle to preserve the country's independence and territorial integrity after the unjustified and unprovoked Russian aggression, the Parliament's decision said. The Soviet-made armoured vehicles were delivered in the 1980s to Bulgaria then an ally of the Soviet Union in the Warsaw Pact. Bulgaria, which joined NATO in 2004, still maintains stocks of Soviet-designed weapons and has numerous factories making ammunition for them. Although Parliament approved in the

Bulgari said in a Chinese-language statement posted to its Weibo account Tuesday evening that it respected 'China's sovereignty and territorial integrity, as always, and firmly'

A majority of Bulgaria's lawmakers on Thursday approved sending the country's first military aid to Ukraine. The National Assembly voted 175-49 with one abstention in favour of a proposal submitted by four pro-European Union parties. The government has now one month to decide what kind of weapons Bulgaria can provide without affecting its own defence capabilities. Bulgaria previously agreed to repair Ukrainian military equipment at its factories but refused to send weapons directly due to opposition from President Rumen Radev and the country's Moscow-friendly political parties. Along with Hungary, Bulgaria was the only EU member country that had declined to give Ukraine weapons as it fights Russia's invasion and war. More weapons mean more war, Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova said, explaining why her party's lawmakers voted against the proposal. The heated debate that preceded the vote reflected the divisions in Bulgaria since Russia invaded its neighbour. Even t

The European Commission is working on a sixth round of measures which could include oil restrictions, but Russia-dependent countries like Hungary and Slovakia are wary of taking tough action

According to the ministry, as for now all arriving foreign citizens must have an EU certificate of vaccination or a document proving that they had been earlier infected with Covid-19

Russia's Gazprom halted gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria on Wednesday over their failure to pay in roubles, cranking up an economic war with Europe

733,139 are the total confirmed cases of coronavirus in Bulgaria. This is shown by data from the National Information System

In the winemaking areas of the northern hemisphere, mainly Europe and North America, spring is when the wines produced from grapes harvested in the previous September-October period are ready, and when the wine-marketing machinery gets going to showcase what has been produced and they take orders for the year from buyers.Anyone who thinks of a snake as something sinister should reconsider.Throughout history, the snake has been a symbol of positive values: strength, wisdom, rebirth or reinvention (it sheds its skin) and, by extension, healing (medicine's caduceus of intertwined snakes), seduction (Adam and Eve), sensuality and power, according to Jean-Christophe Babin, chief executive of Bulgari.To illustrate the worthy attributes of the reptile - and perhaps repay it for providing decades of inspiration, Bulgari has mounted an extensive exhibition, called SerpentiForm, at the Museo di Roma in the 18th-century Palazzo Braschi through April 10. After all, the jewellery house has used the