Bulgaria expects to miss Euro 2020 nomination deadlines
Bulgaria’s odds of hosting football matches as part of the Euro 2020 football championship have become a bystander victim of
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Bulgarian Parliament makes appointments to Constitutional Court, asset forfeiture commission
Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on February 22 to appoint Grozdan Iliev to the Constitutional Court, as well as fill the three
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Bulgarian President Plevneliev to meet leaders of parliamentary groups for talks on future government, elections
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev was scheduled to hold a meeting with leaders of all parliamentary groups at 2pm on February
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church heads for high noon in election of new Patriarch
If all goes according to plan, at 11.45am on February 24, the bells of Sofia’s landmark Alexander Nevsky cathedral will
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Sofia city hall bans parking around Parliament, cathedral
Sofia city hall said on February 21 that it temporarily banned parking and extended stays by cars on two major
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Unfinished business: Bulgarian MPs forge ahead with Constitutional Court, asset forfeiture commission appointments
Bulgarian Parliament’s legal affairs committee held hearings on February 21 to examine the nominations for the country’s Constitutional Court and
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Bulgarian President Plevneliev to start political consultations on new government on February 22
A few hours after Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on February 21 2013 to accept the resignation of Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s
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MRF protests at Borissov’s allegation that Dogan ordered his assassination
Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) leader Lyutvi Mestan has protested “categorically” at an allegation by Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria’s outgoing
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Moments after resignation accepted, Borissov hits the campaign trail – symbolically
Boiko Borissov began his campaign to get his job as Prime Minister back just moments after his government’s resignation was
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