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Day: May 26, 2017

Bulgaria 

Opposition: Appointment of Simeonov to head National Council on Co-operation on Ethnic and Integration Issues is ‘cynicism’

May 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Valeri Simeonov

The appointment of Deputy Prime Minister and nationalist United Patriots co-leader Valeri Simeonov to head Bulgaria’s National Council on Co-operation

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev discusses migration issues, people-trafficking, with Pope Francis

May 26, 2017May 28, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev said that he had held a “very interesting” discussion with Pope Francis on topical issues such

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov: ‘We’ll buy new jet fighters when we’re ready’

May 26, 2017May 28, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Nato

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has hit back after President Roumen Radev, a former Air Force commander, publicly criticised him

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Bulgaria 

21 foreigners have quit Bulgaria in past two years after causing fatal car crashes and injuries – report

May 26, 2017January 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Twenty-one foreigners responsible for fatalities and injuries in car crashes in the past two years had fled the country, local

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Bulgaria 

Prosecutors lodge two charges against mayor of Bulgarian town of Assenovgrad

May 26, 2017May 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The Plovdiv District Prosecutor’s Office has lodged two charges, of misappropriating large sums of money and of signing false documents,

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Bulgaria 

Two Bulgarian Border Police among six arrested in bust of people-trafficking operation at Sofia Airport

May 26, 2017May 27, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Six people, including two Border Police, have been detained in an operation against an organised crime group that was trafficking

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM meets initiators of Nobel Prize nomination for Bulgarian Orthodox Church for role in preventing deportation of Jews to Holocaust

May 26, 2017May 27, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian Jews, Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has held talks with three of the initiators of the campaign for the Nobel Peace

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria watchdog ends Lukoil anti-trust probe, finds no wrongdoing

May 26, 2017September 30, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) has ended its investigation of two subsidiaries of Russian privately-held oil major Lukoil,

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Business 

Bulgaria levies 300 000 leva fine on Montupet car parts plant in Rousse

May 26, 2017May 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian authorities have imposed a fine of 300 000 leva, or about 153 400 euro, on the plant owned by

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