Bulgarian Border Police chief: Migrant-hunting ‘somewhat illegal’
Bulgaria’s Border Police chief has described the scenes on an amateur video of migrants being captured by private citizens and
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PM: Bulgaria can protect its borders – even without Nato
Observing a maritime exercise off Bourgas on April 10, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov boasted that his country’s military and
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Turkey envoys guests at founding congress of Mestan’s DOST party
The DOST party founded by ousted Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) leader Lyutvi Mestan held its inaugural conference in
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Muslims in Bulgarian village restore Christian church
The Muslim community in a Bulgarian village have raised funds and contributed their labour to restore a century-old Orthodox Christian
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Police in Italy, Bulgaria break sex-trafficking ring
With the support of European police agency Europol, the Italian Carabinieri and the Bulgarian police have dismantled an organised criminal
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First Bulgarian business people named in Panama Papers reports
Bulgarian daily 24 Chassa has begun publishing the identities of the country’s business people that it says appear in the
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Bulgarian supreme court jails judge for four years for corruption
Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation has jailed a Veliko Turnovo judge for four years for accepting a bribe of 6000
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Bulgaria set to face referendum on political reforms
Bulgaria appears set to hold a referendum on a number of political and electoral reform issues after an official check
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Serbian court to pronounce judgment on Bulgarian bid to extradite Vassilev
The supreme court in Belgrade has said that it will pronounce judgment on the application by Bulgaria for the extradition
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