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EU ambassadors joint statement on Bulgaria and CVM

March 28, 2017March 29, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

The ambassadors to Bulgaria of 12 EU member states released a joint statement on March 28, in response to a

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Business 

Bulgarian car assembly plant files for bankruptcy – reports

March 28, 2017March 28, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Litex Motors, the owner and operator of the sole car assembly plant in the country, has filed for bankruptcy

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Bulgaria 

Controversy over Bulgarian TV station’s decision not to air talk show host’s episode

March 28, 2017March 29, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Media

A controversy has erupted over the decision by Bulgarian television station bTV not to air an episode of talk show

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Jewish community to donate Vidin Synagogue to municipality

March 28, 2017March 28, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Vidin

The Shalom Organisation of the Jews in Bulgaria has decided to donate the synagogue in Vidin, a port town in

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Leisure 

Bulgarian railways offers train excursions with ‘Europe’s most powerful steam locomotive’ on April 8 and 9

March 28, 2017March 30, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian state railways BDZ and the country’s Tourism Ministry are jointly offering two excursions on April 8 and 9 2017

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections: With all votes counted, GERB 32.65%, BSP 27.2%

March 27, 2017March 29, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

With 100 per cent of votes counted, Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party had 32.65 per cent of the vote and the

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Bulgaria 

Voting ends in Bulgaria parliamentary elections: Borissov’s GERB 32.2%, Ninova’s BSP 28% – exit poll

March 26, 2017January 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova

Moments after voting ended in Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 early parliamentary elections, an exit poll said that Boiko Borissov’s centre-right

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Bulgaria 

Bottlenecks at polling stations in Turkey in Bulgaria’s March 26 parliamentary elections

March 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Turkey

By the afternoon of March 26, voting in Turkey in Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections was much lower than in the 2016

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Bulgaria 

Arrests, fines over breaches of electoral law as Bulgaria votes on March 26

March 26, 2017January 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

As Bulgarians voted in parliamentary elections on March 26, the head of the Central Election Commission in Bulgaria’s Pleven region

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