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Month: October 2016

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Bulgaria 2016 elections podcast: ‘I don’t support anyone’ – except Felix the cat

October 27, 2016October 29, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016, Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcast, podcasts

More than six million Bulgarians inside the country and abroad are being called to the polls in November 2016 to

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Europe 

EU-Canada trade deal moves closer to final approval

October 27, 2016October 27, 2016 VOANews

Belgian politicians agreed to a deal Thursday to support a free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada after

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Helsinki Committee head assaulted in central Sofia

October 27, 2016October 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The president of human rights group the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Krassimir Kanev, was assaulted by two men on the morning

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Plevneliev says will not veto last-minute changes to election laws

October 27, 2016October 28, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on October 27 that he would not veto the last-minute changes to the Electoral Code

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Bulgaria 

Major Sofia thoroughfare to be shut down on October 29 for concert

October 27, 2016October 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

One of the busiest thoroughfares in Bulgaria’s capital city of Sofia, Tsarigradsko Chaussee boulevard, will be shut down for the

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Europe 

Nato’s Vershbow on alliance troops in Eastern Europe: ‘We had no choice’

October 26, 2016October 26, 2016 Deutsche Welle Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Nato, Poland, Russia, Ukraine

Nato had hoped for cooperation with Russia, but Moscow changed the paradigm by annexing Crimea, the alliance’s Deputy Secretary General,

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Europe 

Nato to deploy battalions in Poland and the Baltics in early 2017

October 26, 2016October 26, 2016 The Warsaw Voice Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Nato, Poland

As of the beginning of 2017 year four groups of combat battalions will be stationed on a rotating basis in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM orders investigation into all privatisations of past 25 years

October 26, 2016October 28, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov told a Cabinet meeting on October 26 that he had asked the Interior Ministry and

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Bulgaria 

12 days before presidential election, Bulgarian Parliament amends electoral laws

October 26, 2016October 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016

With 12 days to go before Bulgaria’s November 6 presidential elections, the country’s Parliament approved on October 26 the second

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