Number of foreign tourists visiting Bulgaria more than 24% up on 2008 – statistics institute
More than 10.6 million foreigners visited Bulgaria in 2016, an increase of 24.3 per cent compared with 2008, the National
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Bulgarian government plans staff cuts through merging public service departments
The Bulgarian government is launching a project with the World Bank as consultant to reduce the bloated public service administration
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Alpha Research September 2017 poll: Borissov’s GERB 25.1%, Bulgarian Socialist Party 19.3%
Six months after Bulgaria’s March 26 2017 early parliamentary elections, the picture of support for major political parties is largely
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Former United Patriots local leader pleads guilty to people-trafficking charges
A former local leader of Valeri Simeonov’s National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria – part of the United Patriots
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Bulgarian PM Borissov meets United Patriots: ‘No problems in the governing coalition’
Bulgarian Prime Minister and GERB party leader Boiko Borissov held talks on September 26 with the three co-leaders of the
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Bulgaria begins roadshows on the country’s 2018 EU Presidency
A series of meetings with Bulgarians in various towns to answer their questions about the country’s priorities for its 2018
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Three-quarters of Bulgarian primary school pupils are learning English – Eurostat
About 74.5 per cent of Bulgarian primary school pupils are studying English as a foreign language, according to statistics released
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Bulgaria’s GERB party remembers Holocaust victims in Rosh Hashanah message
After Bulgaria’s nationalist United Patriots parliamentary group provoked controversy with a message on Rosh Hashanah that attacked the “enemies of
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Eurostat: 685 first-time asylum-seekers in Bulgaria in Q2 2017
A total of 685 people became first-time asylum-seekers in Bulgaria in the second quarter of 2017, EU statistics agency Eurostat
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