IMF lowers economic growth forecast for Bulgaria
The International Monetary Fund has cut back its economic growth forecast for 2013 and 2014, seeing growth this year at
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Bulgarian Border Police detain boat transporting illegal immigrants across Black Sea
Bulgarian Border Police detained a boat carrying 24 illegal immigrants, said to be citizens of Afghanistan, about eight nautical miles
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Bulgaria’s Parliament rejects Ataka proposal to close borders to refugees
By an overwhelming majority in a vote on October 9 2013, Bulgaria’s Parliament rejected a motion by Volen Siderov’s ultra-nationalist
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Peevski a no-show at Parliament day after Constitutional Court decision
Three hours after the start of the first sitting of Bulgaria’s Parliament on the day after the Constitutional Court ruling
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Dispute disrupts truck traffic at Turkish – Bulgarian border
A 25km-long queue of lorries formed at the Bulgarian – Turkish border checkpoint at Kapitan Andreevo on October 9 because
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Bulgaria to spend a further million leva on digital TV decoder debacle
Having already spent about 17 million leva (about 8.5 million euro) on advertising to explain the switchover from analogue to
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Constitutional Court move on Peevski revitalises anti-government protests in Bulgaria
An attempted blockade of Plamen Oresharski’s car outside an art gallery and the arrest of six people after a scuffle
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Protests, pledge of veto against plan to backtrack on Bulgaria’s smoking ban
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has pledged that if Parliament approves a backtrack on the ban on smoking in enclosed public
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Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court decides Delyan Peevski is still an MP – updated
The Constitutional Court said on October 8 that Delyan Peevski in place as a member of Parliament in spite of
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