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Month: April 2019

Bulgaria 

Mayor of Bulgaria’s Sozopol denies claim by GERB that he has resigned

April 9, 2019April 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Hours after Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party issued a statement that Panayot Reyzi had resigned as mayor of

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Bulgaria 

Mayor of Bulgaria’s Sozopol resigns over misspending allegations

April 9, 2019April 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Panayot Reyzi has resigned as mayor of Sozopol and as a member of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria postpones visit by Turkish Foreign Minister over religions law row

April 9, 2019April 10, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Bulgaria has postponed a visit by Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu that had been planned for April 9, Deputy Prime

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Bulgaria 

European Parliament elections 2019: Bulgaria’s election commission sets campaign finance limits

April 9, 2019April 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The total amount of financing of the election campaigns of parties and coalitions in Bulgaria’s May 26 2019 European Parliament

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Bulgaria 

‘Balkan Pride’ row: City council rejects call for Plovdiv 2019 artistic director to resign

April 8, 2019April 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

An April 8 special meeting of the Plovdiv City Council, called at the request of nationalist and socialist critics of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President’s consultative council meeting on high-level corruption comes to nothing

April 8, 2019April 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

The April 8 meeting of the Consultative Council on National Security called by Bulgarian President Roumen Radev to discuss measures

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM summons security, defence officials over migrant situation in Greece

April 8, 2019April 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov held a meeting at the Cabinet office with the interior and defence minister and army

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Bulgaria 

A weekend of politics as registration for Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections continues

April 7, 2019April 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

With seven weeks to go to Bulgaria’s May 26 2019 European Parliament elections, political parties and coalitions used the process

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Europe 

EC on International Roma Day: ‘Communities still suffer from widespread discrimination, marginalisation’

April 7, 2019April 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Despite being Europe’s largest minority, Roma communities still suffer from widespread discrimination and marginalisation. This prevents them from accessing fundamental rights to

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