Bulgarian court denies appeal to overturn arrest warrant on CCB majority shareholder Vassilev
Sofia Court of Appeals ruled on September 18 to reject the appeal brought by lawyers acting on behalf of Tsvetan
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Bulgaria approves co-operation programmes with neighboring countries
Bulgaria’s cabinet has approved a series of cross-border co-operation programmes with Romania, Greece, Turkey, Serbia and Macedonia. The programmes are
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Bulgaria’s October elections: 98 candidate MPs named as communist-era spies
Ninety-eight candidate MPs in Bulgaria’s October 5 2014 parliamentary elections have been named as former State Security people, with the
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Bulgaria fears new gas deliveries interruption – Deputy PM
Bulgaria was preparing contingency plans in case of a new interruption in gas supplies from Russia, which was seen as
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Bulgaria’s refugee agency to charge mayor with racism over protest against refugee children in school
Lawyers at Bulgaria’s State Agency for Refugees are preparing to approach the prosecution and the Commission for the Protection against
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Ahead of parliamentary elections, Bulgaria grapples with vote-buying
Unofficial estimates are that in Bulgaria’s early parliamentary elections on October 5 2014, vote-buying will add up to a 10
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State of emergency in two Bulgarian villages after heavy rain
A state of emergency continued to be in force on the morning of September 17 in two villages in Bulgaria’s
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Majority shareholder of Bulgaria’s CCB surrenders to Serbian police – report
The majority shareholder in Bulgaria’s Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB), Tsvetan Vassilev, wanted by Bulgarian prosecutors on suspicion of embezzling, has
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400 doctors have quit Bulgaria since start of 2014 – medical association
Four hundred Bulgarian doctors have left the country to work abroad since the beginning of 2014, pursuing vastly higher salaries
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