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Month: February 2016

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament votes to enable military to assist in border security

February 25, 2016February 26, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted on February 25 to enable the deployment of the country’s military to assist in securing its

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Bulgaria 

Price tag of lengthening Bulgarian – Turkish border fence ‘rises to 100M leva’

February 25, 2016February 26, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Bulgaria’s government has voted an additional 35 million leva for extending the fence along the Turkish border, bringing spending on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Plevneliev pledges to ‘send communism to the museum’

February 25, 2016February 25, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Dossier Commission, Rossen Plevneliev

“A quarter of a century after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, we have to admit that in our country

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Plovdiv hosts Vinaria 2016 wine industry exhibition from February 24 to 28

February 25, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Vinaria, the annual exhibition of the vine and wine industry, has opened at the International Fair Plovdiv and continues until

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Europe 

Tusk: ‘Brexit’ would change Europe forever and for worse

February 25, 2016 VOANews

A “leave” vote in the June 23 British referendum on continued European Union membership “will change Europe forever” and “for

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Europe 

Hungary’s PM calls for national referendum on migrant quota

February 25, 2016February 25, 2016 VOANews Europe migrant crisis, Hungary

Hungary’s prime minister has called for a national referendum on the European Union’s mandatory quotas for migrants and refugees. Speaking

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Bulgaria 

Foreign Minister says Bulgaria will not allow Greek farmers to ruin bilateral relations

February 24, 2016February 25, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Bulgaria has built up its relations with Greece over 25 years and will not allow 100 to 200 Greek farmers

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria arrests nine Veliko Turnovo tax officials for bribery

February 24, 2016February 24, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Veliko Turnovo

In an operation led by the Special Public Prosecutor’s Office, nine National Revenue Agency officials in the Bulgarian city of

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Bulgaria 

Yordan Sokolov, former Speaker of Bulgarian Parliament and interior minister, dies at 83

February 24, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Yordan Sokolov, Speaker of Bulgaria’s National Assembly from 1997 and 2001 and who had been interior minister in the Philip

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