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Day: May 23, 2019

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria faces rainy, sometimes stormy three-day long weekend

May 23, 2019May 26, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria has a three-day weekend from May 24 to 26, opening with the public holiday on Friday celebrating Slavonic Language

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Bulgaria 

Alpha Research: GERB ahead of Bulgarian Socialist Party on eve of European Parliament elections

May 23, 2019May 26, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian European elections 2019, Kornelia Ninova

As campaigning ahead of Bulgaria’s May 26 European Parliament elections closes, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party has 31.1

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Bulgaria 

Exacta Research: GERB will have 7 MEPs, Bulgarian Socialist Party 6

May 23, 2019May 26, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian European elections 2019

In Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections on May 26, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party will get 32.4 per cent

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Bulgaria 

Democratic Bulgaria lodges complaint against machine-gunning campaign video

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The reformist Democratic Bulgaria coalition said on May 23 that it had lodged a complaint with the Central Election Commission

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Bulgaria 

International police operation busts child sex abuse ring with Bulgaria-based server

May 23, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Cybercrime Department at the General Directorate Combating Organised Crime, supported by Europol, took down the servers of a website

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: Intellectuals call for ‘pro-European, pro-democracy and pro-liberal’ vote

May 23, 2019May 23, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgarian European elections 2019

More than 500 intellectuals in Bulgaria have signed an open letter calling on voters in the May 26 European Parliament

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