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Europe migrant crisis: Bulgaria set for joint police-military training border control exercise on March 5

March 4, 2016March 7, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Macedonia

Columns of Bulgarian military vehicles headed along Struma Motorway towards the region near the Kulata border checkpoint ahead of the

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Bulgaria detained 10 406 third-country nationals for illegally entering the country in 2015 – Border Police

March 3, 2016March 4, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Serbia, Turkey

Bulgaria took into custody 10 406 non-EU citizens for illegally entering the country in 2015, a figure 73 per cent

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Bulgarian parliamentary committee on Russian, Turkish interference in politics set for stillbirth

March 2, 2016March 4, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Russia, Turkey

The first meeting of Bulgaria’s parliamentary special committee to examine allegations of interference by Turkey and Russia in the country’s

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Bulgarian PM orders interior, defence ministers to organise joint exercise at borders facing migration pressure

March 2, 2016March 4, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Macedonia

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has instructed the ministers of interior and of defence to organise joint exercises in border

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Heavy traffic, changeable weather expected as Bulgaria heads into March 3 four-day weekend

March 2, 2016March 3, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Traffic police will be out in force in Bulgaria as the country celebrates a four-day weekend beginning on March 3

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Bulgaria bans camping and parking 100m from beach shoreline

March 1, 2016March 3, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s National Assembly has approved the second reading of amendments to the Black Sea Coast Act that ban camping and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria appoints new Customs Agency chief

March 1, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said on March 1 that Rozalia Dimitrova has been appointed as the new head of the Customs

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Bulgarian Prosecutor-General: No ‘joint investigation’ with Palestinians into Zayed’s death

March 1, 2016March 2, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

There will be no joint investigation between Bulgaria and a delegation from the Palestinian authority that arrived in Sofia following

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Bulgaria reports 991.6M leva Budget surplus in January

March 1, 2016April 1, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has said that the consolidated Budget surplus in the first month of 2016 stood at 991.6 million

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