Bulgaria’s GERB again postpones announcement of presidential candidate
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party has again postponed announcing its candidate in the country’s November 2016 presidential
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Refugee Crisis: Frontex director demands more support for Bulgaria
Fabrice Leggeri, the French Executive Director of the European border protection agency Frontex, has demanded more support for Bulgaria. He
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Bulgarian PM Borissov: Bulgaria will not accept migrants from EU
Bulgaria will not accept migrants returned by any European Union member state while there is no readmission agreement, Bulgarian Prime
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Bulgarian Interior Minister in surprise night inspection of Sunny Beach
Bulgarian Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova paid a surprise night visit to the country’s Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach, observing
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Germany to aid Bulgaria in getting more support for border security
Germany will help Bulgaria to get further support for its border security, it emerged after talks between chancellor Angela Merkel
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Boiko Borissov: ‘I am afraid of what is going on in Turkey’
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said he was “afraid of what is going on in Turkey”. Referring to that country,
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Bulgarian PM Borissov calls on EU to lift visas for Turkey, to avert migrant wave
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, disturbed by the danger of a wave of migrants and refugees crossing from Turkey into
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Bulgarian nationalist newspaper becomes latest to cease publication
Bulgarian nationalist weekly Desant, owned by National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria leader Valeri Simeonov and self-described as a
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Plovdiv prosecutors order burnt-out tobacco warehouses shored up
Prosecutors in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv have told municipal and national authorities to organise emergency temporary strengthening of the Tobacco Town
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