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Day: December 21, 2016

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria announces 2016/17 Festive Season traffic, safety measures

December 21, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv, Sofia, Varna

Bulgaria’s traffic police and road infrastructure agency announced on December 21 planned steps to ensure smoother travel on the country’s

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s political crisis: Mixed reactions to Plevneliev’s decision not to appoint caretaker cabinet

December 21, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Georgi Purvanov, Rossen Plevneliev, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev’s announcement on December 21 that he would not appoint a caretaker cabinet but would leave this

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Plevneliev leaves appointment of caretaker cabinet to successor

December 21, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on December 21 that he would not appoint a caretaker cabinet, after attempts to come

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Bulgaria 

More than 2000 have left Bulgaria’s refugee camps in the past month and a half – report

December 21, 2016March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis

Close to 600 people have left refugee camps in Bulgaria in the first two weeks of December and police do

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria political crisis: Reformist Bloc hands back mandate to form government

December 21, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian centre-right Reformist Bloc has formally returned the mandate to form a new government on December 21, ensuring that snap

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Bulgaria 

Georgi Purvanov to step down as leader of his ABC party

December 21, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Georgi Purvanov

Georgi Purvanov said on December 21 that he would step down from the leadership of his ABC party at a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian high court acquits former deputy Parliament Speaker

December 21, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation ruled on December 21 to uphold a lower court’s acquittal of former MP Hristo Biserov

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