Flying in circles: Bulgarian PM hints at further years of delay in acquiring new jet fighters
Bulgaria’s long-delayed process of acquiring new fighter jets for the Air Force looked set to stall again as Prime Minister
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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgarian Defence Ministry official publicly apologises for Hitler salute photograph
Ivo Antonov, the Bulgarian Defence Ministry official whose appearance in a photograph showing him giving a Nazi salute compounded the
Read moreBulgarian President criticises government, calls for condemnation of Nazism over ‘Hitler salutes’ scandals
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has become the latest to react to the controversy of the past few days about photographs
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Bulgarian Defence Ministry official pictured with Hitler salute keeps job – for now
Bulgarian Defence Minister and nationalist United Patriots co-leader Krassimir Karakachanov said on May 19 that no decision had been taken
Read moreBulgaria’s Shalom organisation of Jews, on Simeonov and Nazi salutes scandal: ‘Joking about the Holocaust is inappropriate’
Two Bulgarian Jewish organisations jointly have strongly condemned the statements and inappropriate comments by Valeri Simeonov, deputy prime minister and
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Shechtman at the Sofia Science Festival: ‘Only the educated will be able to survive in the future’
Can we teach technological entrepreneurship? Professor Dan Shechtman’s answer: “Yes, we can – and we should”. Shechtman, an Israeli Nobel
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Bulgaria’s largest party tables bill to introduce majoritarian system for electing Parliament
GERB, the largest party in the National Assembly and the majority partner in Boiko Borissov’s coalition government, tabled on May
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Bulgaria nominates MEP Maria Gabriel to be European Commissioner
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has informed European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that the Cabinet is nominating Maria Gabriel, a
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Bulgarian National Assembly votes third Boiko Borissov government into office
Bulgaria’s unicameral Parliament, the National Assembly, voted Boiko Borissov’s GERB-United Patriots coalition government into office on May 4 2017. The
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