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Month: March 2017

Bulgaria 

Mensa challenges Bulgaria’s MP candidates to take IQ tests – and only four out of more than 4000 agree

March 11, 2017March 13, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

Repeating a challenge that it issued in previous elections, Mensa Bulgaria called on the more than 4000 would-be members of

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Bulgaria 

CIA tracked 150 Bulgarian IP addresses, including of large tech firms and banks – Wikileaks

March 10, 2017March 11, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency

Among the thousands of IP addresses around the world monitored by the United States’s Central Intelligence Agency, there were 150

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian caretaker PM says he hopes tensions with Turkey do not lead to cutting diplomatic relations

March 10, 2017March 12, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister Ognyan Gerdzhikov has acknowledged his country’s tensions with Turkey but said that he hoped that these

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Bulgaria 

Roman Catholic priest who sheltered Syrian refugees at Belene is leaving Bulgaria

March 10, 2017March 12, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

The Roman Catholic priest who was at the centre of controversy because he sheltered a Syrian refugee family in the

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Bulgaria 

Little progress in six months since EU deal with online majors on combating anti-Semitism

March 10, 2017March 12, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

In the half a year since a code of conduct against anti-Semitic posts online was agreed with major internet and

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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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