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Month: March 2017

Bulgaria 

Juncker: EC to ‘explore options’ to help Bulgaria guard EU external border

March 27, 2017March 27, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency European Commission, Roumen Radev

The European Commission is ready to examine the long-term needs of Bulgaria to guard the external borders of the EU

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s March 2017 parliamentary elections: The winners and losers

March 27, 2017March 28, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova, Lyutvi Mestan, Volen Siderov

If anyone may fairly be said to have lost Bulgaria’s March 2017 parliamentary elections, Zlatko Zdravkov would be an appropriate

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections: With all votes counted, GERB 32.65%, BSP 27.2%

March 27, 2017March 29, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

With 100 per cent of votes counted, Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party had 32.65 per cent of the vote and the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2017 parliamentary elections: nationalist coalition ‘disappointed’ by result

March 27, 2017 Alex Bivol Bulgaria elections 2017

Valeri Simeonov, one of the co-leaders of the United Patriots coalition of nationalist parties in Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 parliamentary

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian election results leave Movements for Rights and Freedoms with little to say

March 26, 2017March 27, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

It may be that the election night news conference of second-ranked Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova was something of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian socialist leader Ninova: ‘no grand coalition’ possible

March 26, 2017March 28, 2017 Alex Bivol Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova

Bulgarian socialist party leader Kornelia Ninova struck a civil tone in a brief election night statement on March 26, congratulating

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Bulgaria 

Borissov: GERB is ‘obliged’ to form the next Bulgarian government

March 26, 2017March 28, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017

Speaking just more than an hour after exit polls showed that his centre-right party had gained the most votes in

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Bulgaria 

Voting ends in Bulgaria parliamentary elections: Borissov’s GERB 32.2%, Ninova’s BSP 28% – exit poll

March 26, 2017January 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova

Moments after voting ended in Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 early parliamentary elections, an exit poll said that Boiko Borissov’s centre-right

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Bulgaria 

Bottlenecks at polling stations in Turkey in Bulgaria’s March 26 parliamentary elections

March 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Turkey

By the afternoon of March 26, voting in Turkey in Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections was much lower than in the 2016

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