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Bulgarian Parliament unanimously backs good neighbourliness agreement with Republic of Macedonia

July 27, 2017July 31, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Macedonia

With a vote of 206 in favour, none against and with no abstentions, Bulgaria’s Parliament adopted on July 27 a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s government ‘to fight bureaucracy with more bureaucracy’

July 27, 2017July 28, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

A month and a half after declaring a total war on bureaucracy, the Bulgarian government has decided that in order

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Bulgaria 

Belgrade court declines to rule in Vassilev extradition case

July 26, 2017July 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

A high court in Belgrade has decided it was outside its competence to rule on Bulgaria’s request to extradite Tsvetan

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Bulgarian and Macedonian governments approve draft good neighbourliness agreement

July 26, 2017July 27, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, energy, Macedonia

At their respective meetings in Sofia and Skopje on July 26, the governments of Bulgaria and of the Republic of

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Ivory icon, rare Byzantine gold coin found at Bulgaria’s Rusokastro fortress site

July 26, 2017July 28, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Archaeologists working at the Rusokastro fortress site near Bourgas on Bulgaria’s southern Black Sea coast have made a rare find,

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Bulgaria 

200 people questioned, condemnatory statements after assault of Bulgarian National Television journalist

July 26, 2017July 27, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

More than 200 people have been questioned after three men attacked and seriously injured Bulgarian National Television journalist Ivo Nikodimov,

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Bulgarian GERB MP at centre of dried sausage ‘extortion’ allegations resigns from Parliament

July 25, 2017July 27, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

An MP for Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party, Zhivko Martinov, who is to face charges of extortion and

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Three men assault Bulgarian National Television journalist in central Sofia

July 25, 2017July 25, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Three unidentified men attacked Bulgarian National Television journalist Ivo Nikodimov at Orlov Most (Eagle Bridge) in the centre of capital

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Local leader of Bulgaria’s nationalist NFSB arrested in operation against people-trafficking gang – reports

July 25, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

The Kostinbrod chairperson of the National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria – part of the United Patriots, the grouping

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