At a joint press conference with Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz in St. Petersburg, whose country holds the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU, Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Europe not to “demonstrate its weakness and inability..
For quite some time now, since the fiasco of the South Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Bulgaria in 2014, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov has been dreaming to see Bulgaria playing a more substantial role on the European gas..
Gazprom has not been discussing with Bulgaria the restarting of the South Stream gas pipeline project but options for developing its gas transmission system, Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Russian gas giant, said. The statement was..
The Russian Gazprom company has promised the European Commission not to seek compensations over the scrapping of the South Stream project, EU Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager says. The Russian gas exporter has said it will remove..
A senior source from the Russian Foreign Ministry has told "Interfax" that currently Russia was not discussing restarting the "South Stream" gas pipeline project, but given the thaw in relations between Moscow and Sofia, the possibility of Bulgaria..
The gas pipeline project that was supposed to run along the Black Sea bed to Bulgaria, and further, reaching Central and Western Europe was scrapped a little over two years ago, on instructions by Russian President Vladimir Putin himself...
At the initiative of Brussels in November a trilateral meeting between EC, Bulgaria and Russia is to discuss the realization of the Balkan gas hub near Varna, Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs Tomislav Donchev has announced. It is expected that..
In an extensive statement on the subject, the Bulgarian Prime Minister spoke about the EUR 553 million Bulgaria has to pay as compensation for two reactors f ollowing a ruling by the Court of Arbitration in Geneva. “On the other hand,” he said..
"Bulgaria is a key country in the European energy system and has the potential to build a powerful gas hub that will enable the use of different sources of gas, including Russian gas." With these words of encouragement, EU Climate and Energy..
The South Stream gas pipeline project has been canceled. This was officially declared by the CEO of "Gazprom" Alexey Miller in front of the Vice-President of the European Commission, Maroš Šefčovič, responsible for energy. "Bulgaria expects..
