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Day: March 9, 2017

Europe 

Tusk re-elected, but will anyone lead on migration?

March 9, 2017 Deutsche Welle

Will eastern Europeans get funds clipped for lack of solidarity in migration? The spring EU summit appears more concerned with

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Europe 

EU re-elects Donald Tusk as President

March 9, 2017 VOANews Poland

European Union leaders on Thursday voted overwhelmingly to re-elect Donald Tusk president of the bloc. Tusk’s home country of Poland

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Bulgaria 

Almost all political parties in Bulgaria’s March elections have candidates who worked for communist-era secret services

March 9, 2017March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Dossier Commission

An announcement by Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission on March 9 showed that almost all parties and coalitions in the country’s early

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Bulgaria 

Turkey hits back at Bulgaria over elections controversy

March 9, 2017March 11, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

Turkey does not interfere in the internal affairs of any state, the foreign ministry in Ankara said in response to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2017: Energy and water regulator chief takes vow of silence

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

The head of Bulgaria’s Energy and Water Regulatory Commission said on March 9 that he would make no public statements

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Bulgaria 

Sofia prosecutors: Dismissal of Interior Ministry chief Kostov was lawful, not political

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

Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office said on March 9 that the February dismissal of Georgi Kostov as chief secretary of the

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Bulgaria 

Borissov: Bulgaria’s new Parliament will be under pressure over referendum results

March 9, 2017March 10, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017

The National Assembly being elected on March 26 will be under great pressure because of the results of the 2016

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