Bulgaria’s new cabinet ministers spell out plans
A more powerful State Agency for National Security, recruitment of civilians to act as “civil guards” to assist police, a
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Author: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
What is to become of them?
Gazing on Bulgaria’s newly-elected 42nd National Assembly and the personalities that dominated that day of high drama that was the
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On World No-Tobacco Day, Bulgaria faces new smoking ban debate
As annual World No-Tobacco Day is marked on May 31 2013, with the World Health Organisation and European Union among
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All eyes on Ataka as Parliament prepares to vote on Oresharski cabinet: Updated
Bulgaria’s Parliament has scheduled a sitting for 9am on May 29 to vote on the proposed Plamen Oresharski cabinet, but
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Socialist PM-designate Oresharski names new candidate investment projects minister
Plamen Oresharski, designated by the Bulgarian Socialist Party as its prime minister-designate, found himself presenting a slightly changed list when
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Candidate minister in Oresharski’s proposed government withdraws because of ‘dirty’ campaign against him
Even before Plamen Oresharski could present to President Rossen Plevneliev his proposed cabinet, one of the candidate ministers – Kalin
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A cabinet for a crisis
Prefacing Plamen Oresharski’s announcement on May 27 2013 of the proposed cabinet, Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev portrayed a
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The different roads of Borissov and Plevneliev
As the story goes, it was some months before Bulgaria’s 2011 presidential elections that Boiko Borissov invited Rossen Plevneliev to
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Bulgaria’s elections: The ups and downs
The story of the numbers in Bulgaria’s May 2013 parliamentary elections, once a look is taken at the records of
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