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Day: May 26, 2014

Europe 

Romania opposition leader resigns after European Parliament election

May 26, 2014May 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European elections 2014, Romania

The leader of Romania’s largest opposition party in parliament, Crin Antonescu, resigned on May 26, one day after his National-Liberals

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Europe 

European elections 2014: Now for the aftermath

May 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European elections 2014

With those who voted in the May 22 to 25 European Parliament elections having had their say, now it is

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Bulgaria 

Borissov: The government is a zombie and parliament has no legitimacy

May 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, European elections 2014

Referring scathingly to Plamen Oresharski as the ex-prime minister, the government as “a zombie, dead” and decrying the current parliament

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Europe 

European elections 2014: results across Central and Eastern Europe

May 26, 2014May 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, European elections 2014, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

Twelve European Union member states in Central and Eastern Europe voted in European Parliament elections between May 23 and May

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Bulgaria 

European elections 2014: Borissov’s GERB scores clear win, partial results show

May 26, 2014May 28, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European elections 2014

Boiko Borissov’s opposition centre-right party GERB will win the most votes in Bulgaria’s May 25 European Parliament elections, the country’s

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian court acquits former interior minister on embezzlement charges

May 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Tsvetan Tsvetanov

The Sofia City Court said on May 26 that it found Tsvetan Tsvetanov, MP for opposition party GERB who served

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Bulgaria 

European elections 2014: Unlike elsewhere in EU, far-right in reverse in Bulgaria

May 26, 2014May 26, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency European elections 2014, Volen Siderov

What the French prime minister reportedly described as the “political earthquake” of the rise of far-right parties in European Parliament

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Bulgaria 

Parties in Bulgaria’s ruling axis signal government to stay in spite of BSP rout in European elections

May 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European elections 2014

In spite of the Bulgarian Socialist Party having come in a poor second, about 10 per cent behind the centre-right

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Bulgaria 

Peevski ‘almost quit politics’ but will not take up MEP seat

May 26, 2014May 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European elections 2014, Peevski protests

An immediate focus of fascination at the Movement for Rights and Freedoms’ election night news conference was Delyan Peevski, the

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