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Day: May 27, 2019

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2019 European elections: Winners and losers

May 27, 2019May 28, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian European elections 2019, Kornelia Ninova, Krassimir Karakachanov

With all but a few votes remaining to be counted in Bulgaria’s May 2019 European Parliament elections, the picture of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria Socialist leader Ninova to call party leadership contest, stand for re-election

May 27, 2019May 30, 2019 Alex Bivol Bulgarian European elections 2019, Kornelia Ninova

Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) leader Kornelia Ninova said on May 27 that she would ask the party’s executive committee to

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Bulgaria 

European elections 2019: Five Bulgarian parties win MEP seats, partial results show

May 27, 2019May 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian European elections 2019

Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right party GERB was set for a clear win in Bulgaria’s May 26 European Parliament elections,

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Europe 

Romania ruling party leader heads to jail after corruption conviction upheld

May 27, 2019May 27, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Romania

Liviu Dragnea, the head of Romania’s ruling social-democrat party, turned himself in on May 27 after a high court upheld

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM ‘happy’ with European Parliament election results

May 27, 2019May 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian European elections 2019, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, leader of the centre-right GERB party, has pronounced himself “happy” with his party’s results in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev vetoes amendments on property expropriation

May 27, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev said on May 27 that he has vetoed amendments to the State Property Act meant to

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Europe 

Greek Prime Minister Tsipras calls early general election after MEP vote result

May 27, 2019May 27, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras revealed his intention to call an early general election, after the end of the second

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