Bulgaria 2016 elections podcast: ‘I don’t support anyone’ – except Felix the cat
More than six million Bulgarians inside the country and abroad are being called to the polls in November 2016 to
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Month: October 2016
EU-Canada trade deal moves closer to final approval
Belgian politicians agreed to a deal Thursday to support a free trade agreement between the European Union and Canada after
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Bulgarian Helsinki Committee head assaulted in central Sofia
The president of human rights group the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Krassimir Kanev, was assaulted by two men on the morning
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Bulgarian President Plevneliev says will not veto last-minute changes to election laws
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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Major Sofia thoroughfare to be shut down on October 29 for concert
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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Nato’s Vershbow on alliance troops in Eastern Europe: ‘We had no choice’
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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Nato to deploy battalions in Poland and the Baltics in early 2017
As of the beginning of 2017 year four groups of combat battalions will be stationed on a rotating basis in
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Bulgarian PM orders investigation into all privatisations of past 25 years
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov told a Cabinet meeting on October 26 that he had asked the Interior Ministry and
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12 days before presidential election, Bulgarian Parliament amends electoral laws
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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