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Day: December 6, 2016

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian prosecutors charge former Military Medical Academy head over 16M leva financial damage

December 6, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

The Sofia Military District Prosecutor’s Office has indicted Major-General Stoyan Tonev, former head of the Military Medical Academy, over contracts

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s political crisis: Talks between Reformist Bloc and GERB produce no definitive result

December 6, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgaria’s centre-right Reformist Bloc coalition held talks with Boiko Borissov’s GERB party on December 6 to assess whether the bloc

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Bulgaria 

International study: 40% of Bulgarian ninth-graders functionally illiterate in science, maths and reading

December 6, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

A disturbing picture of Bulgaria’s education system has again emerged with the latest international PISA survey, showing that about 40 per

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Reformist Bloc starts consultations on trying to put together a government

December 6, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Rossen Plevneliev, Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s centre-right Reformist Bloc coalition is starting consultations with a selection of other parliamentary groups on possibly trying to put

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Bulgaria 

Number of Afghans wanting to return home from Bulgaria could reach 500 – Interior Minister

December 6, 2016March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis

About 300 Afghan citizens have applied for voluntary return to their country from Bulgaria and this number could reach 500,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria reports 0.7% economic growth in Q3 2016

December 6, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s economy grew by 0.7 per cent in the third quarter of the year, according to preliminary data announced by

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Perspectives 

The Populist-Putin-Trump insurgency against liberal Europe

December 6, 2016March 9, 2017 Fredrik Wesslau of the European Council on Foreign Relations

Europe’s liberal order could come crashing down next year. Squeezed from all directions, it may not be able to withstand

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria has detained more than 17 700 migrants illegally in country so far in 2016

December 6, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

From the start of 2016 until November 24, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry apprehended a total of 17 717 migrants who

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