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Turkey continues to loom large in concerns about Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections

March 17, 2017March 20, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgaria elections 2017, Lyutvi Mestan, Turkey

Amid continuing controversy over concerns about interference by Turkey in Bulgaria’s March 26 early parliamentary elections, caretaker Prime Minister Ognyan

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Bulgaria prepares to react to voter bussing-in, hacker attacks during March 2017 parliamentary election

March 15, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgaria elections 2017

Bulgaria’s caretaker government and Central Election Commission are developing options to react to situations on the March 26 election day

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Bulgaria 

Thousands of migrants ‘disappear’ from Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry, refugee agency centres – report

March 13, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis

Thousands of migrants have “disappeared” from Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry distribution centres and State Agency for Refugees camps in the past

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Europe 

Socialist SDSM continues efforts to form a government in Macedonia while Gruevski’s party opposes

March 13, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Political parties that have secured a majority in parliament to form a new government in the Republic of Macedonia have said that they

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria and Romania to hold talks in coming weeks on border crossings – caretaker PM Gerdzhikov

March 11, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

The governments of Bulgaria and Romania will hold talks in April at the latest on overall conditions regarding all border

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Bulgaria 

CIA tracked 150 Bulgarian IP addresses, including of large tech firms and banks – Wikileaks

March 10, 2017March 11, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency

Among the thousands of IP addresses around the world monitored by the United States’s Central Intelligence Agency, there were 150

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President: More pragmatism needed in work of Southeast Europe Cooperation Process

March 8, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Roumen Radev, Serbia, Turkey

At a meeting with ambassadors from seven Balkan countries in Sofia on March 8, Bulgarian head of state President Roumen

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Bulgaria 

President Radev to present Bulgaria’s position on EC White Paper in Brussels

March 8, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency European Commission, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev will present the country’s position on European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker’s White Paper

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian municipalities ignore EU-funded refugee integration scheme

March 8, 2017March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis

No Bulgarian municipality has applied to take part in an EU-funded scheme that provides funds to assist in integration of

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