Controversy as Bulgaria empowers mayors to contract private security firms to guard entire towns
Controversy has surrounded the Bulgarian Parliament’s approval of a new law that will enable mayors to conclude contracts with private
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Bulgarian Parliament unanimously ratifies good-neighbourliness treaty with Macedonia
Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted unanimously on January 18 to ratify the treaty with the Republic of Macedonia on friendship, good-neighbourliness
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Ivanović murder will not stop normalisation of relations with Serbia, Kosovo president tells Borissov
Kosovo president Hashim Thaçi has told Bulgaria’s prime minister that his country will not allow the January 16 murder of
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Bourgas Airport terrorism trial: Witnesses describe ‘chaos and panic’
Witnesses in the trial in absentia of two Hezbollah members facing terrorism charges over the July 2012 attack on Israeli
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Stability in Balkans responsible for stability in Europe, Bulgarian PM tells European Parliament
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, whose country holds the rotating presidency of the EU, used a January 17 address to
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Bulgarian PM Borissov condemns murder of Serb politician Ivanović in Kosovo
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU, said on January 16 that
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Bulgarian Defence Minister: PM, Parliament back introducing paid voluntary military service
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and the majority in Parliament support the introduction of paid voluntary military service, Defence Minister
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Bulgaria’s President, PM welcome Skopje’s ratification of good-neighbourliness treaty
Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev and Prime Minister Boiko Borissov have welcomed the ratification by the parliament in
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Bulgaria welcomes Macedonian parliament’s ratification of good-neighbourliness treaty
Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry, in a statement on January 15, welcomed the Macedonian parliament’s ratification of the good-neighbourliness treaty between the
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