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Day: March 12, 2017

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2017: The week that was, March 12

March 12, 2017March 14, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Roumen Radev, Syrian refugees

With two weeks to go to Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 early parliamentary elections, the past few days have seen matters

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Bulgaria 

Belene case Catholic priest: ‘Where are you, Patriarch Neofit? Where are you, Mr President Radev?’

March 12, 2017March 16, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Roumen Radev, Syrian refugees

Father Paolo Cortese, the Roman Catholic priest recalled from Bulgaria after getting death threats for sheltering a Syrian refugee family,

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The headquarters in Sofia of the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church Holy Synod names Bishop Grigorii as new Metropolitan of Vratsa

March 12, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, unanimously elected 47-year-old Bishop Grigorii on March 12 as the new

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Bulgaria 

Protest held in Sofia over Roman Catholic priest recalled from Bulgaria after death threats for sheltering Syrian refugees

March 12, 2017January 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Syrian refugees

A group of Bulgarians from a civil society pressure group held a protest outside the Presidency in Sofia on March

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Business 

Labour inspectorate finds foreigners illegally employed at Bulgarian ski resorts

March 12, 2017March 16, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian Labour Inspectorate found numerous breaches of labour law at the country’s ski resorts, including the illegal employment of

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