Dossier Commission names six Bulgarian Jewish community leaders as former State Security people
Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body charged by law to check people in public life for links to the country’s communist-era
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Bulgaria’s SJC elects Georgi Cholakov to head high court
Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) elected Georgi Cholakov as the next head of the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC), one of
Read moreCorruption claims: Another Bulgarian MEP comes to the defence of country’s border police
Bulgarian member of the European Parliament Emil Radev has become the second to come to the defence of the country’s
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Bulgarian politicians again divided over anniversary of September 1944 Soviet invasion
In an annual ritual, Bulgaria’s political forces are again deeply divided over the September 9 anniversary of the Soviet invasion
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Dutch MEP Piri: 200 complaints against Bulgarian customs officers
Responding to a letter from a Bulgarian nationalist MEP who challenged her to prove allegations of abuses by Bulgarian police
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Tourism Minister: Bulgaria has no national law regarding nudism
Bulgaria has no national legal regulation on the practice of nudism, Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova told the National Assembly during
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Bulgarian supreme court rules in Kara Dere case: Camping outside official campsites is not illegal
Camping outside official campsites is not illegal, Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has ruled in a final judgment on the case
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Bulgarian government grants 100M leva for urgent repairs to national roads
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s Cabinet decided on September 7 to allocate 100 million leva (about 51 million euro) for
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Fifty asylum-seekers relocated from Greece to Bulgaria in two years – European Commission report
Bulgaria, which in 2015 pledged to accept 860 asylum-seekers transferred from Greece, has so far accepted 50, a progress report
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