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Volunteers join ‘Shalom’, Sofia municipality initiative to clean off swastikas, hate slogans in Bulgarian capital

September 16, 2018September 19, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Sofia

More than 100 volunteers turned out on September 16 to take part in an initiative by the Organization of the

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Siderov, Mareshki table resolution calling on Bulgarian PM to oppose EU sanctions against Hungary

September 14, 2018September 14, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Hungary, Volen Siderov

The leader of the far-right Ataka party, Volen Siderov, and of Parliament’s smallest party, Vesselin Mareshki, have tabled a resolution

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Bulgarian Forestry Agency chief resigns over Romanian border fence ‘conflict of interest’

September 14, 2018September 17, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria’s Agriculture Ministry made much of the fence put up at the land border with Romania to try to prevent

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Bulgarian Parliament legislates compulsory seatbelts in buses

September 14, 2018September 17, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Close to four weeks after the Svoge bus crash disaster in which 17 people died, Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on September

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Bulgaria prosecutors raid Sofia establishments in money-laundering probe

September 14, 2018September 17, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Special prosecutors raided two Sofia restaurants on September 14 in connection to an investigation into alleged money-laundering and illegal cigarette

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Bulgarian Transport Minister-designate declines nomination, blames ‘attacks’ against him

September 13, 2018September 16, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Deputy Economy Minister Alexander Manolev said on September 13 that he was declining his nomination to be Tranport Minister,

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Update: One sacked after new case of failed security screening at Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport

September 13, 2018September 16, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

An employee of the Sofia Airport security department was sacked as a result of the latest case of failure to

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Bulgaria presses terrorism, weapons smuggling charges against Swiss citizen who tried to reach Idlib

September 13, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Special Prosecutor’s office has pressed charges of terrorism and arms smuggling against a Swiss citizen who attempted to cross

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Bulgarian Parliament overturns presidential veto on Administrative Procedure Code amendments

September 13, 2018September 13, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian MPs voted on September 13 to overturn President Roumen Radev’s veto on the bill of amendments to the Administrative

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