Bulgarian nationalist United Patriots MP: Commission for Protection against Discrimination is ‘redundant’
Pavel Shopov, an MP for the nationalist United Patriots and a long-standing member of Volen Siderov’s Ataka party, told Bulgaria’s
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Month: July 2017
Poll: Bulgarian business climate declined in July 2017, but still above long-term average
In July 2017, the total Bulgarian business climate indicator decreases by 1.4 percentage points in comparison with June, but continued
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Archaeology: Ancient stone baptismal vessel found at Plovdiv’s Episcopal Basilica site
A team of archaeologists coming to the close of a 10-month project at Plovdiv’s Episcopal Basilica site have found a
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Bulgarian Parliament unanimously backs good neighbourliness agreement with Republic of Macedonia
With a vote of 206 in favour, none against and with no abstentions, Bulgaria’s Parliament adopted on July 27 a
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Turkey appoints new ambassador to Bulgaria, sending Gökçe to Guatemala – reports
The Turkish foreign ministry is to appoint career diplomat Hasan Ulusoy as Ankara’s ambassador in Sofia, and is sending the
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Bulgaria’s government ‘to fight bureaucracy with more bureaucracy’
A month and a half after declaring a total war on bureaucracy, the Bulgarian government has decided that in order
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Belgrade court declines to rule in Vassilev extradition case
A high court in Belgrade has decided it was outside its competence to rule on Bulgaria’s request to extradite Tsvetan
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Bulgarian and Macedonian governments approve draft good neighbourliness agreement
At their respective meetings in Sofia and Skopje on July 26, the governments of Bulgaria and of the Republic of
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Albania wants to ‘do its homework in best possible way’ on EU accession, president tells Bulgarian FM
Albanian president Ilir Meta has told Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva that his country relies heavily on Bulgaria and its
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