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Four days after Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections, Tomislav Donchev, a senior member of Boiko Borissov’s GERB party, said that there were “conversations, not negotiations” on the formation of a new government. […]
Bulgaria will begin accepting refugees from Turkey, the caretaker cabinet agreed in a decision not made public, a report on March 30 said. The decisio ...
A controversial bid by the local council of the Bulgarian town of Koprivshtitsa to abolish its status as an architectural and historical reserve appea ...
Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev said on March 30 that he hoped the government that would be formed after the elections that were held f ...
A Bulgarian was among members of a crime group arrested in a bust against the smuggling of large quantities of hashish from Spain to Poland and illegal cigarette production, European […]
The Russian ambassador in Sofia, Anatoliy Makarov, has written to centre-right GERB party leader Boiko Borissov congratulating him on his party’s victory in Bulgaria’s March 26 parliamentary elections. GERB announced […]
Acting on numerous complaints, the Bulgarian Prosecutor’s Office has begun an investigation into the “blockade” of the Turkish border mounted by a nationalist political grouping ahead of the March elections, […]
Bulgaria’s nationalist United Patriots coalition wants to have seats in a future GERB cabinet but is making no “extraordinary claims” on portfolios, according to co-leader Krassimir Karakachanov. His comments in […]
The number of visits by foreign tourists to Bulgaria in January and February 2017 was 18.6 per cent higher than in the first two months of 2016, caretaker Tourism Minister […]
The summer season at Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast “starts today”, public broadcaster Bulgarian National Radio said on March 30 2017, with the arrival of a charter flight at Bourgas Airport. […]
