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Day: February 7, 2017

Bulgaria 

Ivanov’s ‘Yes Bulgaria’ gets 20 000 signatures in a day, overshooting target for election registration

February 7, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

Former justice minister Hristo Ivanov’s “Yes Bulgaria” faced a target of getting 3000 signatures in a day to register a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria resumes electricity exports after break of almost four weeks

February 7, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s caretaker Energy Minister Nikolai Pavlov has ordered the resumption of the country’s electricity exports as of February 9, after

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party signs election coalition deal with five parties including communists

February 7, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

The Bulgarian Socialist Party has signed an election coalition agreement with five other parties for the country’s March 2017 early

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Business 

Bulgarian consumer confidence increased in January 2017 – NSI poll

February 7, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency

Confidence among Bulgarian consumers was 2.5 percentage points higher in January 2017 than it was in October 2016, the National

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s nine most dangerous roads listed, based on road deaths in 2016

February 7, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry has announced the country’s nine most dangerous roads, based on statistics on road deaths and injuries in

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Bulgaria 

Hristo Ivanov’s ‘Yes Bulgaria’ scrambles for signatures to stay in March 2017 elections

February 7, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, judiciary

At key points in Sofia on February 7, volunteers from former justice minister Hristo Ivanov’s “Yes Bulgaria” asked passersby for

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Bulgaria 

Another controversial ‘Lukov March’ honouring World War 2 general planned for Sofia

February 7, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Far-right activists in Bulgaria are planning to hold their annual “Lukov March” in capital city Sofia on February 18, honouring

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria 2017 elections: Former justice minister’s Yes Bulgaria urgently gathering signatures to register as coalition

February 7, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

Yes Bulgaria, the anti-corruption and pro-judicial reform political party founded by former justice minister Hristo Ivanov, was holding an urgent

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