Bulgaria’s Muslims re-elect Chief Mufti amid long-standing controversy
More than 1200 delegates to the National Muslim Conference from across Bulgaria re-elected Mustafa Hadzhi as Chief Mufti on January 24
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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Changes in Bulgarian political scene as Parliament opens for first sitting of 2016
Bulgaria’s unicameral Parliament, the National Assembly, holds its first sitting for 2016 on January 13, with turbulence in both opposition
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Year in Review: Bulgaria’s 15 newsmakers of 2015
In Bulgaria in 2015, some made the news and some had the news thrust upon them. Apart from those who
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Year in Review: Politics in Bulgaria in 2015
Politically, the year 2015 was in the main a good one for Bulgarian Prime Minister and GERB party leader Boiko
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Year in Review: Europe’s migrant crisis and Bulgaria
More than a million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe by land and sea in 2015, in a crisis that
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Bulgaria: Politics and Protests in the 21st Century – the book
Bulgaria is heading into the remainder of the 21st century with a considerable list of things to do. The challenges
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Plovdiv’s political drama, Act 2, scene three
Plovdiv is to be European Capital of Culture in 2019, but on the long, long night of November 1 2015
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Bulgaria elections 2015: Parties take sides in the battle for Plovdiv
In the days remaining to the run-off between GERB’s Ivan Totev and the Patriotic Front’s Slavcho Atanassov in the mayoral
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Bulgaria elections 2015: The battle for Plovdiv – Phase II
Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv will be a major political background, with the city the largest in the country to go
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