Bulgarian MPs overturn presidential veto on bill imposing limits on foreigners buying land
Bulgarian Parliament voted on April 29 to overturn President Rossen Plevneliev’s veto on the amendments to the Agricultural Land Ownership
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Bulgaria forcing out refugees, Human Rights Watch says, angering government
Bulgaria has embarked on a “Containment Plan” to reduce the number of asylum seekers in the country, Human Rights Watch
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Bulgaria’s military rehearses for army day flypasts over Sofia
The whirr of helicopter blades and roaring of jets over Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia are no cause for alarm –
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Senior Bulgarian judge indicted in EU funds embezzlement probe
Bulgarian prosecutors indicted the head of the Sofia Court of Appeals, Vesselin Pengezov, on April 28, in a lawsuit that
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UK ambassador: Russia’s actions make the case for a Western-facing Bulgaria
British ambassador in Sofia Jonathan Allen said on April 28 that Bulgaria has no reason to fear any backlash from
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Protests in Bulgarian village pressure Syrian refugee families to leave – after just two days
Three families of Syrian refugees left the village of Rosovo in Bulgaria after just a few days because of protests
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church rejects proposed partial ownership of Alexander Nevsky cathedral
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, has rejected a government proposal to award the church ownership of
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Bulgarian – Turkish border fence farce
The controversy in Bulgaria over its expensive fence project at the Turkish border to keep out illegal migrants has trailed
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Bulgarian President Plevneliev: Canonisation of Popes ‘special day for believers’
The April 27 canonisation of Popes John Paul II and John XXIII was a special day for believers around the
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