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Bulgaria’s 2019 European Parliament elections: Exit polls show GERB victory

May 26, 2019May 29, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer and Alex Bivol Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian European elections 2019, Kornelia Ninova

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party took the largest share of votes in the country’s European Parliament elections

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What should be on the new Bulgarian cabinet’s to-do list?

November 7, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer and Alex Bivol

With Bulgaria’s 43rd National Assembly having voted to approve the new cabinet headed by Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, there will

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government tables resignation in Parliament

July 23, 2014July 27, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer and Alex Bivol Peevski protests, Plamen Oresharski, Rossen Plevneliev

The Bulgarian cabinet nominally headed by Plamen Oresharski tabled its resignation in Parliament shortly before 6pm on July 23 2014.

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Bulgaria 

Tension in central Sofia as rival protest groups gather outside Parliament during Budget veto debate

August 16, 2013August 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer and Alex Bivol Peevski protests, Rossen Plevneliev

Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova called for calm amid tensions in the centre of the Bulgarian capital city as rival protest

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Unfinished business 2: The Bulgarian government’s to-do list

February 22, 2013February 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer and Alex Bivol

The abrupt resignation of Boiko Borissov’s government ahead of the end of its term leaves a list of unfinished business

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Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolai Mladenov at the Sofia Forum for the Balkans
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Which compass direction for the Western Balkans?

June 10, 2012May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer and Alex Bivol 0 Comments

Amid the clamour and cacophony of the European economic crisis and the rapidly-whirling rumour mill about the future of the

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