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Bulgarian President holds firm against appointing ambassadors who were communist secret service agents

May 31, 2013June 2, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Kristian Vigenin, Rossen Plevneliev

In one of the first most significant differences between Bulgaria’s socialist-led government and the country’s head of state, President Rossen

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s new Foreign Minister on the Western Balkans, former State Security agents

May 31, 2013June 2, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Dossier Commission, Kristian Vigenin

Bulgaria’s new Foreign Minister Kristian Vigenin, a member of the Bulgarian Socialist Party cabinet that came to power in Sofia

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What is to become of them?

May 31, 2013June 9, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Plamen Oresharski, Rossen Plevneliev, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

Gazing on Bulgaria’s newly-elected 42nd National Assembly and the personalities that dominated that day of high drama that was the

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What’s On: Children’s festival in Sofia’s South Park

May 31, 2013May 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria celebrates the Day of the Child on June 1, and among planned events is a childrens’ festival on June

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On World No-Tobacco Day, Bulgaria faces new smoking ban debate

May 30, 2013May 30, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer smoking

As annual World No-Tobacco Day is marked on May 31 2013, with the World Health Organisation and European Union among

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry chief secretary, security agency chief quit as new government takes over: Updated

May 30, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Tsvetlin Yovchev

Interior Ministry chief secretary Kalin Georgiev has resigned, Bulgaria’s new Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev said on May 30 2013, while

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Parliament passes maternity leave hike

May 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Parliament passed at first reading on May 30 two bills that envision raising maternity leave to 310 leva a

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission names another former State Security agent in the media

May 30, 2013May 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the statutory body that checks and discloses the names of people in certain categories who formerly worked

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Deja vu: European Commission’s recipe to fix Bulgaria’s economic woes

May 29, 2013October 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

After finding macroeconomic imbalances in half of EU’s member states, the European Commission issued on May 29 country-specific recommendations on

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