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Bulgaria’s new environment minister in video describing global warming as ‘manipulation’

May 5, 2017May 7, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s new Environment and Water Minister, Neno Dimov, appeared in a video in 2015 describing global warming as a fraud

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Back in power as PM, Bulgaria’s Borissov shrugs off opposition criticism

May 4, 2017May 5, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, back as head of his country’s government for the third time, has dismissed opposition criticism

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Bulgarian National Assembly votes third Boiko Borissov government into office

May 4, 2017May 5, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova, Krassimir Karakachanov, Roumen Radev, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria’s unicameral Parliament, the National Assembly, voted Boiko Borissov’s GERB-United Patriots coalition government into office on May 4 2017. The

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Bulgarian MPs reject socialist proposal to freeze their salaries

May 4, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria’s National Assembly rejected on May 4 a proposal by the Bulgarian Socialist Party, the second-largest group in the legislature,

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Boiko Borissov presents proposed cabinet to President Roumen Radev

May 4, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Roumen Radev

The day on which Boiko Borissov will become Bulgaria’s Prime Minister for a third time began with a brief ceremony

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Video: Bulgaria’s village of Trud – a bio plant, allegations of smell, noise and dead bees

May 3, 2017May 3, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Bulgaria Now Channel in conjunction with https://sofiaglobe.com is hosted by Lance Nelson and in this video, Miro and Nikolai part

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Bulgaria’s proposed new Borissov coalition cabinet: 10 things to know

May 3, 2017May 5, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Krassimir Karakachanov, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

Boiko Borissov, expected to be elected Bulgaria’s prime minister on May 4 2017, has announced the members of his third

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to seek additional assurances in Gazprom anti-trust settlement

May 3, 2017May 3, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s would accept Gazprom’s proposals to settle the EU anti-trust investigation into the Russian state-owned gas company’s manipulation of Central

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Bulgaria’s Borissov announces names of GERB-United Patriots coalition cabinet

May 3, 2017May 5, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Krassimir Karakachanov, Valeri Simeonov

Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB party leader Boiko Borissov announced on May 3 2017 the portfolios and names in the GERB-United Patriots

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