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Bulgaria’s ‘Borissov 3’ coalition government talks in final straight

May 2, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Negotiations on the formation of a new coalition government to be headed by Boiko Borissov headed into a final phase

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Air Force asks people not to fly drones on May 6 Army Day

May 2, 2017May 3, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Bulgaria’s Air Force has asked people in Sofia and surrounding places not to fly any remote-controlled aircraft such as drones on

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Bulgaria 

Prosecutors charge three Syrians, two Bulgarians over illegal trafficking of migrants

May 2, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Special Prosecutor’s Office said on May 2 that it had laid criminal charges against three Syrians and two Bulgarians

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Video: Bulgarian tourism, a government-to-be, the Sofia Science Festival and Eurovision

May 2, 2017May 3, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria Now, Eurovision, Lance Nelson, podcasts, Sofia Science Festival, tourism

Bulgaria turned in a healthy growth in tourism figures in the first three months of 2017, while a new elected

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Bulgarian President Radev: Financial aspects of Brexit negotiations will be the most difficult

April 29, 2017January 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Brexit, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev said on April 29 that the financial aspect of relations between the European Union and the

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Europe 

27 EU leaders unanimously agree negotiating guidelines for Brexit

April 29, 2017May 1, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Brexit

Meeting in Brussels on April 29, twenty-seven European Union heads of state and government unanimously – and rapidly – agreed

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Europe 

Protesters rally at EU building in Skopje to demand new elections in Macedonia

April 29, 2017April 29, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Macedonia

The night after a violent incursion by nationalists into Macedonia’s parliament after the election of an ethnic Albanian as speaker,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Borissov says external interference in Macedonia’s domestic affairs ‘unacceptable’

April 28, 2017January 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Macedonia, Roumen Radev

Boiko Borissov, leader of Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB party and expected soon to become his country’s prime minister, has called for

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Bulgaria 

GERB, United Patriots start talks on coalition government posts

April 28, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Boiko Borissov’s GERB and the nationalist United Patriots started formal negotiations on April 28 on the composition of their coalition

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