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Day: May 27, 2016

Bulgaria Perspectives Videos 

Podcast: Timely release wagons; and Bulgarians and businesses, and other stories

May 27, 2016May 31, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

If Bulgaria does not already baffle you, prepare to be bamboozled by the buffoons responsible for what they imagine passes

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Europe 

Macedonian president Ivanov withdraws amnesty for 22 politicians

May 27, 2016May 30, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Macedonian president Gjorge Ivanov has decided to annul part of the amnesty, withdrawing the decision to pardon 22 political figures out

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President takes referendum questions to Constitutional Court

May 27, 2016August 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev is asking the Constitutional Court to rule whether three of the questions planned

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Bulgaria 

Borissov: I could have been President years ago if I wanted

May 27, 2016August 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2016, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on May 27 that he did not see himself as the unifying right-wing candidate

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria anti-trust regulator approves Tokuda hospital acquisition by Acıbadem

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition has ruled to approve the proposed acquisition of Tokuda hospital in Sofia and City

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian village mayor faces organised crime, racketeering charges

May 27, 2016May 29, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The mayor of the Bulgarian village of Galiche, Tsenko Chokov – arrested in a large-scale police raid along with his

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line of umbrellas on a beach in Greece photo Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Leisure 

Bulgarian beaches record slight drop in latest EU bathing waters report

May 27, 2016May 29, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff beaches

The number of coastal bathing waters in Bulgaria that meet the European Union’s higher “guide values” showed a small decrease

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian parliamentary committees approve jet fighter, patrol ship projects

May 27, 2016May 29, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

The Bulgarian Parliament’s committees on defence and on budget and finance have approved projects worth well more than a billion

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Europe 

Putin visits Greece for first time in 10 years

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Russia

Russian president Vladimir Putin is on a working visit to Greece for the first time in 10 years, in the context

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