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Sixty-two per cent of Bulgarians see immigration as the most important issue facing the European Union while 42 per cent see terrorism as the biggest issue facing the bloc, the […]
Bulgaria’s Border Police director-general Svetlan Kichikov says that the migration pressure situation in Bulgaria is calm and there are days on which there are no attempts at illegal border-crossings. He […]
An agreement between Bulgaria and the United States providing for strengthened checks on people crossing Bulgaria’s borders would enter into force within days, Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova said. “With the […]
Bulgarian president-elect Roumen Radev has declined President Rossen Plevneliev’s offer to name a caretaker cabinet that Plevneliev will use his power to decree. Radev made the statement in a televised […]
Bulgaria’s traffic police and road infrastructure agency announced on December 21 planned steps to ensure smoother travel on the country’s roads during the forthcoming Festive Season holidays. Traffic police head […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev’s announcement on December 21 that he would not appoint a caretaker cabinet but would leave this to his successor Roumen Radev drew predictably mixed reactions – […]
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on December 21 that he would not appoint a caretaker cabinet, after attempts to come up with an elected government failed, but would leave this […]
Close to 600 people have left refugee camps in Bulgaria in the first two weeks of December and police do not know where they are. In November 2016, a total […]
Bulgarian centre-right Reformist Bloc has formally returned the mandate to form a new government on December 21, ensuring that snap parliamentary elections would be held in the spring of 2017. […]
Georgi Purvanov said on December 21 that he would step down from the leadership of his ABC party at a congress on January 15 2017. The deputy leaders of the […]
