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The ethics committee of Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council has begun an investigation into whether Sofia City Court Judge Roumyana Chenalova
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The former head of Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security (SANS) has been missing since December 5, local media reported
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Ten villages in the Elhovo region entered their second week without electricity on December 8 after power lines froze. Bulgarian
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Parts of Bulgaria continued to struggle with the situation after flooding, while a “code red” warning remained in place on
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A state of emergency was declared in Gulubovo municipality on the afternoon of December 5 as heavy rain swelled rivers,
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Bulgaria’s nationalist Patriotic Front (PF) will not proceed with its threats to withdraw its support for Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s
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The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) and Bulgaria signed on December 5 2014 a “special support plan” which provides for
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Bulgarian ultra-nationalist Ataka party leader Volen Siderov has resigned as deputy head of the National Assembly’s foreign policy committee, a
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Firefighters and rescue teams have carried out more than 200 rescue operations in south-eastern Bulgaria in the past day, the
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