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Bulgarian Foreign Minister on Erdoğan: No responsible politician should question borders

October 21, 2016October 23, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Turkey

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov says that no responsible political should bring into question the current borders between countries in

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Bulgarian PM says will back sanctions on Russia if hostilities in Aleppo continue

October 20, 2016October 22, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Russia, Syria

Bulgaria would favour EU sanctions against Russia if hostilities in Aleppo continue, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on October 20

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Bulgarian election commission increases polling stations abroad for presidential election

October 20, 2016October 21, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016

As Bulgaria’s Parliament is poised to debate amendments to the Electoral Code that would scrap a limit on the number

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Bulgarian presidential candidate’s joke about brainless socialists offends socialist leader

October 20, 2016October 21, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova has called on GERB presidential candidate Tsetska Tsacheva to apologise for telling, during a

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Bulgaria presidential elections: Movement for Rights and Freedoms officially endorses Oresharski

October 20, 2016October 21, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

The third-largest party in the current Bulgarian Parliament, the Movement for Rights and Freedoms founded by Ahmed Dogan, on October

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Mestan’s DOST party backs GERB’s Tsacheva in Bulgarian presidential elections

October 20, 2016October 20, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016, Lyutvi Mestan

Bulgarian minority party DOST, the breakaway from the Movement for Rights and Freedoms led by former MRF leader Lyutvi Mestan,

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Son of ‘Gülenist’ repatriated to Turkey rejects Bulgarian Interior Ministry claim none sought asylum

October 20, 2016October 20, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

At least one of the seven suspected followers of Fethullah Gülen who were repatriated to Turkey by Bulgaria had wanted

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CETA: Bulgaria wants ‘irreversible guarantees’ from Canada on elimination of visas

October 19, 2016October 20, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Romania

Bulgaria’s government said on October 19 that it would not support the European Union’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)

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Bulgarian government approves further 20M leva for fence at Turkish border against migration

October 19, 2016October 20, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on October 19 a further 20 million leva (about 10.23 million euro) towards the building of a

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