Bulgarian PM slams minority party for quitting government
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has hit out at minority socialist breakaway party ABC for withdrawing its support for its
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Author: Independent Balkan News Agency
Bulgaria foreign trade gap shrinks in Q1 2016
Bulgaria’s foreign trade gap in the first quarter of this year stood at 892.8 million leva, or 456.5 million euro, shrinking from
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Bulgarian nationalists propose burqa ban in Sofia
A Bulgarian nationalist group in Sofia municipal council has tabled a proposal to ban the wearing of the burqa in
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Bulgaria’s election law drama continues after presidential veto
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on May 8 that he believed that President Rossen Plevneliev was correct to veto
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US praise for Bulgarian efforts against corruption
Visiting Sofia, United States Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken has praised what he described as the successful efforts that
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Cruise ship visits to Bulgaria drop after Turkey terrorist attacks
In spite of optimistic forecasts earlier in 2016 that cancellations of cruise ship visits to Turkey because of terrorist attacks
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Greek government brings forward controversial tax, pension reforms vote
Greece will grind to a halt on Friday as the country’s largest Unions called a 48-hour strike following a government
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Fireworks over fireworks at Sofia cathedral at Orthodox Easter
Archimandrite Dionisii, dean of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s landmark Alexander Nevsky cathedral in Sofia, is no stranger to controversy. A
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Police, protesters hurt in clash in Bulgaria’s Radnevo amid ethnic tension
Three police and six protesters were injured in confrontations in the southern Bulgarian town of Radnevo as more than 2000
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