The Bulgarian government has decided to build an EU-funded motorway across the Kresna Gorge, the country’s most important nature reserve. The decision brushes aside 20 years of mobilisations by locals and environmentalists.Read the full article
“When I receive my pension, I first pay all my bills…whatever is left over of the leftover is for food.”Read the full article
The web is playing an ever-growing role in the process of recruiting exploited workersRead the full article
Plamen Dimitrov, President of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions of Bulgaria, tells Equal Times about the challenges facing one of the EU’s newest, and poorest, member statesRead the full article
On 1 January 2014, Bulgarians and Romanians gained the same rights to work in the UK as other citizens of the European Union, seven years after they joined the EU. The British press predicted a “deluge” of tens of thousands eastern European migrants coming to the UK in a desperate search for [...]Read the full article
