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Day: March 1, 2017

Europe 

Macedonian president Ivanov does not mandate Zaev to form a government

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

The president of  Macedonia Gjorge Ivanov held a news conference on March 1 to announce his decision on the mandate regarding

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria caretaker PM raises prospect of ERM2 application

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister Ognyan Gerdzhikov said on March 1 that his government had the “ambition” to submit a formal

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Bulgaria 

Political row erupts over proposed change of Bulgarian Defence Chief

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Nato, Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s former governing party and former defence minister have expressed outrage at the caretaker Cabinet nomination of a new Defence

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev names former State Security staffer as security and defence adviser

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has appointed Ilian Alipiev, formerly a member of the country’s communist-era secret service State Security’s counterintelligence

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Bulgaria 

Poptodorova’s airport incident: ‘honest mistake’ and ‘hybrid warfare’

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Poland, Russia

Bulgaria’s former ambassador to the United States, Elena Poptodorova, has described an incident at Warsaw Airport in which she was

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Bulgaria 

More than 44 400 Bulgarians have applied to vote abroad, most in Turkey

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

More than 44 400 Bulgarians have submitted requests online to vote abroad in the March 26 early parliamentary elections, the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s ex-president Plevneliev not optimistic about formation of government after elections

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgaria elections 2017, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria’s former president, Rossen Plevneliev, has become the latest to express pessimism about the prospects of the swift formation of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s caretaker government nominates new Defence Chief

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s caretaker Cabinet said on March 1 2017 that it was nominating land forces commander Andrei Botsev to be the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarians trust EU and Bulgarian Orthodox Church the most, and political parties the least – poll

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

A survey on Bulgarians’ attitudes towards institutions has found that they trust the European Union and Bulgarian Orthodox Church the

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