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Bulgarian PM orders Border Police chiefs fired over migrant transport contract

August 15, 2016August 16, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has ordered the dismissal of the top leadership of the Border Police after a contract

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Citing ‘backroom deals’, Ombudsman pulls out of BSP presidential candidate race

August 15, 2016August 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016

Bulgarian Ombudsman Maya Manolova has written a letter to Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) structures that nominated her to be the

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Bulgaria foils further attempts at illegally crossing its borders with Serbia, Turkey

August 13, 2016August 15, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Serbia, Turkey

Over the past day, Bulgarian Border Police detained 87 foreign nationals who had attempted to cross the Bulgarian-Serbian border illegally,

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Controversy continues over Bulgaria’s deportation of Büyük to Turkey

August 12, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Turkey

Controversy is continuing over Bulgaria’s expulsion to Turkey of Turkish business person Abdullah Büyük, with his lawyers saying that there

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UN rights chief sees ‘worrying signs’ in Bulgaria’s detentions of migrants

August 12, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has expressed serious concern that virtually all people entering

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria records 0.7% economic growth in Q2 2016 – flash estimate

August 12, 2016September 2, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s economy posted 0.7 per cent growth in the second quarter of the year, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said

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Bulgaria annual CPI records 0.2% deflation in July

August 12, 2016August 15, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s consumer price index (CPI) shrank by 0.2 per cent year-on-year in July 2016, while the monthly data showed one

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Bulgarian banks pass asset quality review, central bank governor says

August 12, 2016August 15, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

All Bulgarian lenders met minimum regulatory requirements on capital adequacy ratios in the first sector-wide asset quality review concluded earlier

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2016 Perseid meteor shower to peak on August 12 and 13

August 11, 2016August 15, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff final frontier

Skywatchers in Bulgaria will be able to enjoy one of the summer night sky’s most spectacular annual displays as the

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