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Month: April 2017

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev: Financial aspects of Brexit negotiations will be the most difficult

April 29, 2017January 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Brexit, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev said on April 29 that the financial aspect of relations between the European Union and the

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Europe 

27 EU leaders unanimously agree negotiating guidelines for Brexit

April 29, 2017May 1, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Brexit

Meeting in Brussels on April 29, twenty-seven European Union heads of state and government unanimously – and rapidly – agreed

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Europe 

Protesters rally at EU building in Skopje to demand new elections in Macedonia

April 29, 2017April 29, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Macedonia

The night after a violent incursion by nationalists into Macedonia’s parliament after the election of an ethnic Albanian as speaker,

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Perspectives 

Opinion: Skopje violence the result of planned destabilization

April 29, 2017 Deutsche Welle Macedonia

The outbreak of violence in Skopje is hardly surprising. The attack on the Macedonian parliament is the result of a

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Europe 

Macedonian politicians turn parliament violence into war of words

April 29, 2017 VOANews Macedonia

Macedonia’s rival parties are trading blame for violence in parliament, while world powers are giving opposing reactions to the events.

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Borissov says external interference in Macedonia’s domestic affairs ‘unacceptable’

April 28, 2017January 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Macedonia, Roumen Radev

Boiko Borissov, leader of Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB party and expected soon to become his country’s prime minister, has called for

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Bulgaria 

GERB, United Patriots start talks on coalition government posts

April 28, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Boiko Borissov’s GERB and the nationalist United Patriots started formal negotiations on April 28 on the composition of their coalition

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament: Aggression against Macedonian MPs ‘unacceptable assault on parliament and democracy’

April 28, 2017May 1, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Kornelia Ninova, Krassimir Karakachanov, Macedonia, Roumen Radev, Valeri Simeonov

Bulgaria’s National Assembly adopted on April 28 a declaration strongly condemning the previous day’s assault on the parliament in Skopje,

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Business 

Survey: Bulgarian business climate improved slightly in April 2017

April 28, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency

April 2017 saw a slightly improved opinion of the business climate in Bulgaria, bolstered by more positive opinions among managers

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