President Plevneliev tables proposal in Parliament for referendum along with local elections on October 25
Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev has tabled in the National Assembly a proposal to hold a national referendum
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Bulgarian Cabinet approves bill to implement EU bank recovery directive
Bulgaria’s government approved on June 3 a bill implementing the provisions of EU’s the bank recovery and resolution directive, a
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PM: Mass address re-registrations to sway elections to be cancelled
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has told his GERB party to accept a proposal by the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party
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Borissov’s GERB has most support but slipping, BSP still a poor second but gaining – poll
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party remains the country’s most-supported political force with 24.5 per cent of voters
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Opening of Bulgaria’s communist Military Intelligence files irks socialists
The order by Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev to transfer communist-era Military Intelligence archives to the Dossier Commission – the
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Bulgaria’s competition watchdog fines electricity distributors 1.17M leva over access to utility poles
Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on June 2 that it has fined the country’s three electricity distribution
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Garmen protesters in failed bid to break police cordon at Roma neighbourhood
A group of protesters in Garmen municipality made a failed attempt to break through a police cordon guarding the Roma
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Teenager found stabbed to death in Sofia’s Borissova Gradina
Police in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia are investigating after the body of a 16-year-old boy was found on a bench
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Hundreds protest in Garmen against illegal construction, Roma
Hundreds of residents of Garmen municipality, joined by bikers and politicians from elsewhere in the country, held a protest on
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