European Parliament vote on Juncker European Commission to go ahead on October 22
Votes by European Parliament committees to approve a final two candidate European Commissioners after an 11th-hour reshuffle have opened the
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Day: October 21, 2014
Bulgarian Socialist Party to accept invitation to second-round talks with GERB on government
The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) will accept an invitation to second-round talks with election winner GERB on a future government,
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Polish former foreign minister: Putin offered to divide Ukraine with Poland
Poland’s Parliamentary Speaker and former foreign minister, Radoslaw Sikorski, has been quoted by the US Politico website as saying that
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Sofia City Court refuses request to extradite Koblyakov from Bulgaria to Russia
Sofia City Court, in a ruling on October 10, refused a request to extradite Russian human rights anti-Putin activist from
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Bulgarian given suspended sentence for vote-buying
A man who was arrested a day after Bulgaria’s October 5 parliamentary elections for offering people 20 leva (about 10
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Bulgaria again lowest-ranked EU country in RSF’s World Press Freedom Index
Bulgaria has for the second consecutive year been placed 100th in Reporters Without Borders’ World Press Freedom index, again also
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Reserved responses among four parties invited to second-round talks on Bulgarian government
The announcement by Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB party leader Boiko Borissov that four parties were to be invited to second-round talks
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Bulgarian government in 2013 was ‘second most hated’ in the world – Gallup poll
A survey by international pollsters Gallup has found that on a list of “partly free” countries, the Bulgarian government in
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French oil CEO killed in Moscow runway crash
The head of French oil giant Total was killed late Monday when his private jet collided with a snow plow
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