Bring the BBC World Service back to Bulgaria, campaigners call - The Sofia Echo reports

Six months after the BBC World Service stopped broadcasting for Bulgaria, The Sofia Echo reports on a campaign launched on Facebook asking for it to be restored. Gabriel Hershman gives an insight into the campaign and background into why the BBC World Service was forced to shut down.

Art for art's sake?

Bulgaria flushed with indignation after artwork in Brussels uses `Turkish toilet' to depict country

A new art installation, on display at the European Council building in Brussels, has enraged Bulgarian observers with its depiction of Bulgaria as a toilet. Not that Bulgaria was the exclusive target of the satirist in question. Entropa, the work of Czech artist David Cerny, also portrays Romania as a Dracula theme-park and France as a country on strike. The Netherlands is shown as series of minarets submerged by a flood and Germany is shown as a network of motorways vaguely resembling a swastika. Controversially, the UK is excluded from the artwork completely, perhaps a metaphor for the country's self-imposed isolation from the EU.

EU artwork causes outcry...and an unexpected denouement

A new art installation, on display at the European Council building in Brussels, has enraged Bulgarian obervers with its depiction of Bulgaria as a toilet. Entropa, the work of Czech artist David Cerny, is a satirical work that also portrays Romania as a Dracula theme-park and France as a country on strike. Controversially, it excluded Britain from the artwork completely, perhaps a metaphor for its isolation from the EU.

From marriage to money in The Sofia Echo; from mattresses to Macedonia in Month2Come

Getting Bulgarian citizenship is no easy task, often involving a wait of years. Yet, for one foreigner unaware that he automatically and officially had citizenship by virtue of birth, it meant a bureaucratic obstacle to going ahead with his wedding day. The issue of The Sofia Echo published on August 29 2008 has full details of the strange story, as recounted by reporter Svetlana Guineva.