President Plevneliev tables proposal in Parliament for referendum along with local elections on October 25
Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev has tabled in the National Assembly a proposal to hold a national referendum
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Month: June 2015
Bulgarian Cabinet approves bill to implement EU bank recovery directive
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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PM: Mass address re-registrations to sway elections to be cancelled
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has told his GERB party to accept a proposal by the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party
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Borissov’s GERB has most support but slipping, BSP still a poor second but gaining – poll
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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Unemployment in Bulgaria dropped to 10.1% in April, EU at 9.7%
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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Opening of Bulgaria’s communist Military Intelligence files irks socialists
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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Tsipras: Greece made ‘comprehensive and realistic proposal’ to creditors
Greece has sent a “comprehensive and realistic proposal” to its creditors that it hopes will seal a deal over its
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European Parliament retaliates for Russia’s ‘stop list’ of EU politicians and officials
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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Fresh elections in Macedonia in April 2016, says EU commissioner Hahn
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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