Bulgaria’s ruling socialists to call Parliament sitting after Budget veto
Bulgaria’s socialists, one of the two parties in the ruling coalition, said on August that the party would call an
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Bulgarian President vetoes Budget revision
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on August 7 that he vetoed parts of the Budget revision bill, which Parliament passed
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Iron Age necropolis near Strouma motorway in Bulgaria destroyed
Part of an early Iron Age necropolis in Doupnitsa district in southwestern Bulgaria, in the immediate vicinity of the recently-launched
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Bulgarian Cabinet to pay 130 000 leva to relatives of Oranovo miners’ relatives, rescuers
Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on August 7 the payment of one-off aid to the relatives of miners who died in the
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Would-be thieves torch money in botched ATM robbery in Bulgaria
Burglars who attempted to crack an ATM in the Bulgarian town of Shoumen ended up burning through the plastic cash
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Bulgarian President to challenge eavesdropping bill at Constitutional Court
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said on August 6 that he will challenge the recent amendments to the Special Surveillance Means
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All eyes on whether Bulgarian President will put a spoke in the wheels of socialist billion-leva budget tinkering
By August 7, it should become clear whether Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has decided to exercise his limited right of
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Bulgaria to shut down state public opinion agency, and other dismissals
Bulgaria’s lawmakers intended to terminate the National Centre for the Study of Public Opinion (NCSPO), the Parliament’s public opinion polling
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Controversy deepens over reforms of Bulgaria’s electoral laws
One of the very few things that Bulgaria’s two sets of protests so far this year – the “cost of
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