Bulgaria’s Cabinet nominates former dissident Bochev among four new ambassadors
Bulgaria’s Cabinet has nominated four new ambassadors, in the latest round of the changing of the guard in the country’s
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Day: July 11, 2012
Bulgaria to ask for delay in switch to digital broadcasting
Bulgaria’s Government plans to ask the European Commission to postpone the deadline for the switch to digital broadcasting, now set
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Protests and price hikes cost Borissov and Bulgaria’s leaders popularity – poll
Disenchantment with Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB Government and its leader, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, after the Forestry Act amendments controversy and
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Bulgarian food minister slammed for racist remark about Roma beach vendors
Remarks by Bulgaria’s Agriculture and Food Minister Miroslav Naidenov that he wanted “swarthy fellows” selling corn on the country’s beaches
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Romanian court deepens impasse over presidential impeachment
Romania’s constitutional court ruled on July 10 to raise the bar for the presidential impeachment referendum, but instead of clarifying
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CIA flights: EU states must investigate secret detention sites in Europe, EP committee says
European Union member states must investigate whether there were secret prisons or facilities on their territory where people were held
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Euro zone could shed further 4.5M jobs by 2016 – UN report
If current economic policies do not change quickly, the 17-member euro zone may lose 4.5 million jobs over the next
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Russia sends warships to Mediterranean
For the last year, the Russian government has tried to project an image of neutrality in the increasingly bloody conflict
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Russia hosts talks with Syrian opposition
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is set to host talks Wednesday with the head of the Syrian National Council, the
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