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Bulgaria’s 2017 elections: Central Election Commission fines two media

March 4, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Media

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission (CEC) has ordered two mass-circulation Bulgarian-language media to be fined for what the commission ruled were

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US state dept report criticises Bulgaria over intolerance towards refugees, Roma, and anti-Semitism

March 4, 2017January 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The annual human rights report by the US state department on Bulgaria said that marginalisation of and societal intolerance towards

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s caretaker PM: European Commission candidate will be a woman

March 2, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

Bulgaria’s nominee to be its new European Commissioner will be a woman, caretaker Prime Minister Ognyan Gerdzhikov said on March

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Bulgaria World 

European Parliament calls for reimposing EU visa requirements for US citizens

March 2, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Parliament has voted to call on the European Commission to reintroduce visa requirements for United States citizens because

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Poptodorova resigns from American Jewish Committee post in Warsaw

March 2, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s former ambassador to the United States, Elena Poptodorova, has resigned from her post as director of the American Jewish

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Good weather forecast as Bulgaria heads for March 3 national holiday long weekend

March 2, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s long weekend, from March 3 to 5 as the country celebrates its national day, was expected to see largely

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria caretaker PM raises prospect of ERM2 application

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s caretaker Prime Minister Ognyan Gerdzhikov said on March 1 that his government had the “ambition” to submit a formal

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Bulgaria 

Political row erupts over proposed change of Bulgarian Defence Chief

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017, Nato, Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s former governing party and former defence minister have expressed outrage at the caretaker Cabinet nomination of a new Defence

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Bulgarian President Radev names former State Security staffer as security and defence adviser

March 1, 2017March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has appointed Ilian Alipiev, formerly a member of the country’s communist-era secret service State Security’s counterintelligence

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