Bulgaria former interior minister handed four-year jail sentence
The Sofia City Court sentenced Tsvetan Tsvetanov, MP for opposition party GERB who served as interior minister in Boiko Borissov’s
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Bulgaria’s ruling axis seeks to close ranks against resignation demands
In spite of the Bulgarian Socialist Party being trounced in European Parliament elections, the parties of the ruling axis –
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Sofia emergency medics resign en masse in row over ambulance delays, underfunding
Emergency services medics in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia resigned en masse on May 29 in protest against the government’s attempt
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Sofia mayor orders districts to be ready to cope with expected thunderstorm, torrential rain
Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova told the city’s district mayors to be ready to deal with the consequences of the torrential
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Calls in Bulgarian Socialist Party for leadership change after European Parliament elections rout
Sergei Stanishev’s leadership of the Bulgarian Socialist Party is being called into question by some BSP MPs after the party’s
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Central Election Commission: Final results of Bulgaria’s May 2014 European Parliament elections
The Central Election Commission (CEC) announced at a May 28 news conference the final results of Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections
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Mestan: ‘very sober’ discussion about early elections needed
The Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) is ready for talks with all political forces to calm the situation in
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Bulgaria facing EU sanctions over South Stream – Barroso
Outgoing European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said that the EC was planning to begin infringement proceedings against Bulgaria for
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Ataka to call for nullification of European Parliament results, calls no-confidence vote a ‘farce’
Bulgaria’s far-right ultra-nationalist party Ataka, fresh from winning no seats in the country’s European Parliament elections, has ignored calls from
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