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Political row in Bulgaria over European Parliament migration resolution

October 28, 2016November 1, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016, Europe migrant crisis, European Parliament

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

October 27, 2016October 27, 2016 Deutsche Welle

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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Bulgaria 

Clocks in Bulgaria change to winter time on October 30 2016

October 27, 2016October 30, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

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

October 27, 2016October 29, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016, Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, podcast, podcasts

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

October 27, 2016October 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

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

October 27, 2016October 28, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016, Rossen Plevneliev

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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Major Sofia thoroughfare to be shut down on October 29 for concert

October 27, 2016October 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

One of the busiest thoroughfares in Bulgaria’s capital city of Sofia, Tsarigradsko Chaussee boulevard, will be shut down for the

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Bulgarian PM orders investigation into all privatisations of past 25 years

October 26, 2016October 28, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov told a Cabinet meeting on October 26 that he had asked the Interior Ministry and

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12 days before presidential election, Bulgarian Parliament amends electoral laws

October 26, 2016October 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016

With 12 days to go before Bulgaria’s November 6 presidential elections, the country’s Parliament approved on October 26 the second

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