Bulgaria’s Reformist Bloc starts consultations on trying to put together a government
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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Month: December 2016
Number of Afghans wanting to return home from Bulgaria could reach 500 – Interior Minister
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 reports 0.7% economic growth in Q3 2016
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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The Populist-Putin-Trump insurgency against liberal Europe
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 has detained more than 17 700 migrants illegally in country so far in 2016
From the start of 2016 until November 24, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry apprehended a total of 17 717 migrants who
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Interior Minister Buchvarova: Reports about planned terrorist attack in Bulgaria untrue
Bulgarian Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova has indicated that allegations about plans for a terrorist attack in Bulgaria are untrue. “There
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Bulgarian Interior Minister: Tipoff received via diplomatic channels on plans for terrorist attack
Bulgaria had received an alert via diplomatic channels of plans for a terrorist attack in the country, Interior Minister Roumyana
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Bulgaria’s political crisis: Scant chance election rules will change before 2017 vote
In spite of the outcome of Bulgaria’s controversy-ridden November 2016 national referendum on changes to the political system – including
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Bulgaria’s outgoing PM discusses migration crisis, presidential elections with US ambassador
In talks on December 5, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov discussed the migration crisis and the outcomes of the presidential
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