Bulgarian Parliament votes to enable military to assist in border security
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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Month: February 2016
Price tag of lengthening Bulgarian – Turkish border fence ‘rises to 100M leva’
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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Bulgarian President Plevneliev pledges to ‘send communism to the museum’
“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
Vinaria, the annual exhibition of the vine and wine industry, has opened at the International Fair Plovdiv and continues until
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Tusk: ‘Brexit’ would change Europe forever and for worse
A “leave” vote in the June 23 British referendum on continued European Union membership “will change Europe forever” and “for
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Hungary’s PM calls for national referendum on migrant quota
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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Foreign Minister says Bulgaria will not allow Greek farmers to ruin bilateral relations
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 arrests nine Veliko Turnovo tax officials for bribery
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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Yordan Sokolov, former Speaker of Bulgarian Parliament and interior minister, dies at 83
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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