EU still deadlocked on blacklisting Hezbollah
Brussels. European Union nations failed to come to a decision to add the military wing of Hezbollah to the bloc's list of international terrorist groups despite fresh talks on the issue, diplomatic sources told AFP on Thursday.

Some of Bulgarian govt’s economic and social measures are not very meaningful: economist
Sofia. The government’s economic and social measures are very small steps. Some of them are not very meaningful, for example the one about the rise in the minimum working salary, Lachezar Bogdanov, economist with Industry Watch, told FOCUS News Agency.

BDZ Freight Services privatization terminated
Sofia. Bulgaria’s Agency for Privatization and Post-Privatization Control has terminated the privatization of Bulgarian State Railways (BDZ) – Freight Services, which is owned by Holding BDZ, announced the agency.