Bulgarian PM Borissov: President Plevneliev will not be candidate to replace Georgieva as European Commissioner
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on October 29 that incumbent head of state President Rossen Plevneliev will not be
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Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva quits European Commission to become World Bank CEO
Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva has resigned from the European Commission and will become World Bank chief executive from January 2 2017,
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Total finds oil on Bulgaria’s Black Sea shelf
French oil and gas company Total said in its third-quarter earnings report on October 28 that it found oil on
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Political row in Bulgaria over European Parliament migration resolution
Bulgaria’s largest parliamentary party GERB and the nationalist Patriotic Front coalition have launched verbal attacks on the opposition Bulgarian Socialist
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Bulgaria, Europe’s ‘most corrupt country,’ cracks down – again
Despite having been part of the European Union for nearly a decade, tackling high-level corruption remains one of Bulgaria’s “biggest
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Clocks in Bulgaria change to winter time on October 30 2016
Clocks in Bulgaria change to winter time at 4am on October 30 2016, going back an hour to 3am. This
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Bulgaria 2016 elections podcast: ‘I don’t support anyone’ – except Felix the cat
More than six million Bulgarians inside the country and abroad are being called to the polls in November 2016 to
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Bulgarian Helsinki Committee head assaulted in central Sofia
The president of human rights group the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee, Krassimir Kanev, was assaulted by two men on the morning
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Bulgarian President Plevneliev says will not veto last-minute changes to election laws
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on October 27 that he would not veto the last-minute changes to the Electoral Code
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