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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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Bulgaria’s newly-elected Parliament to hold its first sitting on April 19

April 7, 2017April 11, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s newly-elected 44th National Assembly will hold its first sitting on April 19 2017, as decreed by head of state

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s caretaker govt, President continue damage control attempts in controversy over bill on voting rights

April 7, 2017April 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Roumen Radev

The blame game is continuing in a controversy about draft legislation posted on the Bulgarian Justice Ministry website that envisaged

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Bulgaria’s red baron, President Radev, flies into turbulence over law changes

April 5, 2017April 7, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s President Roumen Radev has been in office as head of state since January 22. Of the 74 days since

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s far-right Ataka leader Siderov says he will not be a cabinet minister in Borissov’s next government

April 5, 2017April 7, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017, Volen Siderov

If negotiations on a coalition government work out, Bulgarian nationalist coalition the United Patriots will be part of Boiko Borissov’s

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian caretaker Justice Minister fires official over unconstitutional draft bill limiting voting rights abroad

April 5, 2017April 7, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

A controversial draft bill that would have curtailed the voting rights of Bulgarians abroad has been withdrawn and the official

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Bulgaria 

GERB, United Patriots agree that next government will have Boiko Borissov as Prime Minister

April 4, 2017April 5, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Volen Siderov

The first official meeting between Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB and the nationalist United Patriots for talks on a coalition government

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev defends controversial scrapping of regulation on integration of refugees

April 4, 2017April 5, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Europe migrant crisis, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has sought to defend the controversial scrapping of a government regulation on the integration of refugees,

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Bulgaria 

GERB, United Patriots to meet again for coalition government talks next week

March 31, 2017April 2, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Volen Siderov

The three leaders of Bulgaria’s nationalist United Patriots met the leadership of Boiko Borissov’s GERB party for an hour on

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Perspectives 

Of Bulgaria, and ‘conversations not negotiations’ on the forming of a new government

March 30, 2017March 31, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Four days after Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections, Tomislav Donchev, a senior member of Boiko Borissov’s GERB party, said that there were

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