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Month: March 2017

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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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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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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President: More pragmatism needed in work of Southeast Europe Cooperation Process

March 8, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Roumen Radev, Serbia, Turkey

At a meeting with ambassadors from seven Balkan countries in Sofia on March 8, Bulgarian head of state President Roumen

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Bulgaria preparing changes to rules on integration of migrants and refugees

March 8, 2017March 10, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

Because of social tensions, Bulgaria’s caretaker government is preparing changes to the regulations and conditions for the integration of migrant

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria has youngest first-time mothers in the European Union – Eurostat

March 8, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

On average, Bulgarian women have their first baby at the age of 26, making them the youngest first-time mothers in

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Bulgaria 

General Andrei Botsev takes office as Bulgaria’s latest Defence Chief

March 8, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Nato, Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s former land forces commander Andrei Botsev took office on March 8 as Defence Chief – the third officer to

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Bulgaria 

Dutch scientific research ship Pelagia to study climate change in Black Sea region

March 8, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Dutch scientific research vessel the RV Pelagia will be in Bulgarian waters in March and April 2017, studying climate change

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria opposes ‘two-speed Europe’ model, caretaker government says

March 8, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

Bulgaria wants the unity and integrity of the European Union preserved and opposes a model of a multi-speed Europe, the

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