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Month: June 2015

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President Plevneliev tables proposal in Parliament for referendum along with local elections on October 25

June 3, 2015June 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev has tabled in the National Assembly a proposal to hold a national referendum

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Cabinet approves bill to implement EU bank recovery directive

June 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Bulgaria’s government approved on June 3 a bill implementing the provisions of EU’s the bank recovery and resolution directive, a

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Bulgaria 

PM: Mass address re-registrations to sway elections to be cancelled

June 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has told his GERB party to accept a proposal by the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party

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Bulgaria 

Borissov’s GERB has most support but slipping, BSP still a poor second but gaining – poll

June 3, 2015June 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party remains the country’s most-supported political force with 24.5 per cent of voters

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Business 

Unemployment in Bulgaria dropped to 10.1% in April, EU at 9.7%

June 3, 2015June 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff euro zone, Eurostat, macroeconomic indicators

Unemployment in Bulgaria was 10.1 per cent in April 2015, down from 11.6 per cent in April 2014, but the

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Bulgaria 

Opening of Bulgaria’s communist Military Intelligence files irks socialists

June 3, 2015June 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

The order by Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev to transfer communist-era Military Intelligence archives to the Dossier Commission – the

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Europe 

Tsipras: Greece made ‘comprehensive and realistic proposal’ to creditors

June 3, 2015June 3, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greece has sent a “comprehensive and realistic proposal” to its creditors that it hopes will seal a deal over its

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Europe 

European Parliament retaliates for Russia’s ‘stop list’ of EU politicians and officials

June 3, 2015June 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff European Parliament, Russia

The Russian ambassador to the EU’s access to the European Parliament building has been restricted as part of measures in

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Europe 

Fresh elections in Macedonia in April 2016, says EU commissioner Hahn

June 2, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

EU Enlargement Commissioner Johannes Hahn said on June 2, after negotiating several hours in Skopje with leaders of the four main

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