Bulgarian President Plevneliev calls Consultative Council on National Security meeting for November 20
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has called a meeting of the Consultative Council on National Security for November 20, to discuss
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Teenage Syrian refugee assaulted in Sofia
A 17-year-old Syrian refugee was assaulted on the night of November 3 2013 by two men near the Voenna Rampa
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Bulgarian government’s new goals in ‘action plan’ on refugee situation
Bulgaria’s Cabinet is to consider a draft plan on dealing with the refugee situation in the country, which includes seven
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Bulgaria deputy prosecutor-general resigns
Boiko Naidenov, who heads Bulgaria’s National Investigative Service, resigned on November 4 as head of the service and as an
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Approval rating of Bulgarian government plummets to new low – poll
Public trust in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government has fallen to a new low, below the “critical” 20 per cent
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Bulgarian nationalists march to demand expulsion of illegal migrants
Supporters of nationalist party the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organisation (VMRO) and ultra-nationalists Ataka staged weekend marches demanding the expulsion of
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60% of Bulgarians support student anti-government protests – poll
Sixty per cent of Bulgarians support the protests by university students demanding the resignation of the Bulgarian Socialist Party government,
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Movement for Rights and Freedoms’ Hristo Biserov quits as party deputy leader, MP
Hristo Biserov, deputy leader of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) and Deputy Speaker of Bulgaria’s 42nd National Assembly,
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Student protesters march outside Bulgarian Parliament
For the first time since the start of anti-government student protests in Bulgarian capital city Sofia last week, the focus
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