Bulgarian prosecutors ask Parliament to lift immunity from MP in embezzlement investigation
Bulgaria’s prosecutor-general Sotir Tsatsarov has filed a formal request to Parliament, asking for the House to lift the immunity of
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Approval ratings of Bulgaria’s courts, prosecution plummet – poll
The approval ratings of several of Bulgaria’s institutions, including the country’s courts, prosecution office and Parliament all have plummeted in
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Outrage in Plovdiv over demolition of historic ‘Tobacco Town’ warehouse
Indignant residents of Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv formed a human chain and marched on the municipal headquarters in protest after
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Bulgaria steps up security at strategic sites around the country
Armed security forces were deployed around various strategic sites in Bulgaria on March 4 as the country stepped up security
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Syrian, Iraqi refugees in Greece: We won’t go back
Hungry people are angry people. In the makeshift tent camp just meters from Macedonia, here on the Greek side of
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Europe migrant crisis: Bulgaria set for joint police-military training border control exercise on March 5
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
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
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
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has instructed the ministers of interior and of defence to organise joint exercises in border
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