European Union regulations don’t prevent countries from confiscating assets from someone charged with civil offenses or not yet convicted of a crime, the EU’s highest court ruled Thursday.
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The European Court of Human Rights on Thursday ordered Bulgaria to halt its deportation of a group of Uighur refugees, on the grounds that they could be tortured or killed by Chinese authorities.
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A murder and human smuggling investigation into the deaths of 39 people crammed together in the back of a tractor-trailer from Bulgaria is spanning Europe as authorities try to piece together how the truck made it to an industrial park near London.
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Bulgarian police have detained a suspect who is allegedly behind the hacking of the national revenue agency, an attack that leaked the personal and financial data of millions of Bulgarians and companies.
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Bulgarian officials said Tuesday that unidentified hackers have stolen the personal details of millions of people from Bulgaria’s national revenue agency and noted a possible Russian link in the case.
Read moreCreating a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency empire that billed itself as the “Bitcoin Killer,” a brother-and-sister team pumped their product in public and trashed their customers in private. Prosecutors arrested the brother on Wednesday and announced Friday that his sister remains at large.
Read moreReinstating trademark protection for mineral water produced in Devin, Bulgaria, the European General Court found Thursday that any association tourists might have with the tiny spa town is not enough to cause confusion.
Read moreA 21-year-old suspect in the rape and slaying of a Bulgarian television journalist said Friday that he killed Viktoria Marinova, but didn’t mean to.
Read moreGerman police have arrested a suspect in the rape and killing of a television journalist from Bulgaria whose work highlighted corruption in the East European country, officials said Wednesday.
Read moreA senior Bulgarian police officer has confirmed that a man has been taken into custody in connection with the slaying of a journalist who highlighted suspected government corruption.
Read moreThe EU’s top court set the parameters Thursday for consumer-protection authorities to go after an internet seller whose refusal to issue a refund ticked off a customer.
Read moreTwo journalists were detained overnight by Bulgarian police after they found burning and shredded documents while working on a story about suspected fraud involving European Union funds, one of the reporters said Friday. Bulgarian authorities confirmed the two were taken into custody and released.
Read moreSwatting away the flies with her long tail, Penka the cow happily munches on hay, unaware of the international stir she has caused.
Read moreBulgaria has hit a setback to its hopes of soon becoming a member of the euro after the European Central Bank said the EU’s poorest country needs “wide-ranging” reforms to get its economy in shape to join.
Read moreEU grandparents should be able to seek court relief when it comes to child access, a magistrate with the European Court of Justice advised Thursday.
Read moreSwitzerland’s executive branch on Wednesday ordered a one-year cap on the number of workers from Bulgaria and Romania who can access Swiss jobs, after an influx from the two European Union member states in recent months.
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