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Day: August 29, 2016

Bulgaria World 

Portugal’s Guterres holds lead in third ‘straw poll’ to be next UN Secretary-General

August 29, 2016August 31, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Irina Bokova

Antonio Guterres, formerly Portugal’s prime minister and a former head of the UN High Commission for Refugees, scored a hat

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s GERB again postpones announcement of presidential candidate

August 29, 2016August 31, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2016

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party has again postponed announcing its candidate in the country’s November 2016 presidential

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Bulgaria 

Refugee Crisis: Frontex director demands more support for Bulgaria

August 29, 2016March 2, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

Fabrice Leggeri, the French Executive Director of the European border protection agency Frontex, has demanded more support for Bulgaria. He

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Business 

Bulgarian business climate in August unchanged from July – poll

August 29, 2016August 31, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

The Bulgarian business climate in August 2016 was largely unchanged from July, according to a regular monthly survey among managers

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Europe 

Frontex announces stress tests for Europe’s external borders

August 29, 2016August 29, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Greece

The director of Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, plans to introduce a stress test on the external borders of Europe of a

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