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European Parliament elections 2019: Bulgaria’s election commission sets campaign finance limits

April 9, 2019April 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The total amount of financing of the election campaigns of parties and coalitions in Bulgaria’s May 26 2019 European Parliament

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Bulgaria 

‘Balkan Pride’ row: City council rejects call for Plovdiv 2019 artistic director to resign

April 8, 2019April 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

An April 8 special meeting of the Plovdiv City Council, called at the request of nationalist and socialist critics of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President’s consultative council meeting on high-level corruption comes to nothing

April 8, 2019April 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

The April 8 meeting of the Consultative Council on National Security called by Bulgarian President Roumen Radev to discuss measures

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM summons security, defence officials over migrant situation in Greece

April 8, 2019April 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov held a meeting at the Cabinet office with the interior and defence minister and army

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Bulgaria 

A weekend of politics as registration for Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections continues

April 7, 2019April 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

With seven weeks to go to Bulgaria’s May 26 2019 European Parliament elections, political parties and coalitions used the process

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Europe 

EC on International Roma Day: ‘Communities still suffer from widespread discrimination, marginalisation’

April 7, 2019April 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Despite being Europe’s largest minority, Roma communities still suffer from widespread discrimination and marginalisation. This prevents them from accessing fundamental rights to

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Bulgaria 

Confirmed cases of measles in Bulgaria have more than doubled in a month, to 223

April 7, 2019April 8, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

There are 282 registered cases of measles in Bulgaria, of which 223 have been confirmed by laboratory tests, the Health

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria increases patrols at borders as migrants try to reach North Macedonia from Greece

April 5, 2019April 8, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Macedonia, Refugees, Turkey

Bulgaria has strengthened its border patrols and is ready to implement a crisis management plan, Interior Minister Mladen Marinov told

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Bulgaria 

German President visits the Berlin Wall – in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv

April 5, 2019April 8, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Visiting Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv, European Capital of Culture 2019, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier was shown decorated fragments of the

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