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Reformist Bloc October 8 meeting fails to produce united stance on possible GERB government

October 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

An October 8 meeting of leaders of the parties of the Reformist Bloc on a unified position on a GERB

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Foreign Ministry: Russian deputy PM Rogozin’s comments on warplanes ‘completely unacceptable’

October 8, 2014May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Russia

Comments by the deputy prime minister of Russia, Dmitry Rogozin, on the Bulgarian government’s intentions to replace outdated Russian military

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Reformist Bloc grapples with GERB coalition issue

October 8, 2014October 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian election 2014

The centre-right Reformist Bloc was due to meet on October 8 to debate its position on coalition government negotiations with

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Bulgaria 

Ten Bulgarian political parties to get state subsidies totalling 33M leva yearly

October 8, 2014October 8, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgarian election 2014, Bulgarian elections 2014

Ten Bulgarian political parties, including two that did not win seats in Parliament, will get state subsidies totalling more than

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian air force to carry out low-level training flights over Sofia from October 8 to 10

October 8, 2014October 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The Bulgarian air force is to carry out low-level training flights over capital city Sofia from October 8 to 10,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria deficit increase weakens a key rating strength, Fitch says

October 7, 2014October 9, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian election 2014, Bulgarian elections 2014

Bulgaria’s proposed budget revisions highlight how the summer’s bank runs, a slowing economy and over-spending are weakening its public finances,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarians and preferential voting: shift happens

October 7, 2014October 9, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014

Bulgarians appear to have taken to preferential voting with a passion, with more than third who voted in the country’s

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Bulgaria 

Borissov ‘ready to offer cabinet posts to parties in return for responsibility for policies’

October 7, 2014October 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian election 2014, Bulgarian elections 2014

Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party, winner of the most votes in the October 5 elections, intends beginning talks with all

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Bulgaria 

Mistake if youths do not know the truth about communism, fascism and the transition – Plevneliev

October 7, 2014October 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

It would be a strategic mistake if Bulgaria’s youth was not enabled to know the truth about communism, fascism and the

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