Bulgarian politicians again divided over anniversary of September 1944 Soviet invasion
In an annual ritual, Bulgaria’s political forces are again deeply divided over the September 9 anniversary of the Soviet invasion
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Dutch MEP Piri: 200 complaints against Bulgarian customs officers
Responding to a letter from a Bulgarian nationalist MEP who challenged her to prove allegations of abuses by Bulgarian police
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Tourism Minister: Bulgaria has no national law regarding nudism
Bulgaria has no national legal regulation on the practice of nudism, Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova told the National Assembly during
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Bulgarian supreme court rules in Kara Dere case: Camping outside official campsites is not illegal
Camping outside official campsites is not illegal, Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has ruled in a final judgment on the case
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Bulgarian government grants 100M leva for urgent repairs to national roads
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s Cabinet decided on September 7 to allocate 100 million leva (about 51 million euro) for
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Fifty asylum-seekers relocated from Greece to Bulgaria in two years – European Commission report
Bulgaria, which in 2015 pledged to accept 860 asylum-seekers transferred from Greece, has so far accepted 50, a progress report
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Dutch MEP’s claims of corruption at Bulgarian-Turkish border rile nationalist MEP
A Bulgarian nationalist MEP has described allegations by a Dutch counterpart that Bulgarian police extort bribes from EU citizens at
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Bulgarian Cabinet to ask EBRD for its position on Mitrev
Bulgaria’s Cabinet decided on September 7 to ask the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for its position on
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‘Azerbaijani laundromat’ reports: Bulgarian Prosecutor-General orders probe of Mitrev
Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has ordered an investigation into Kalin Mitrev, the country’s representative on the board of directors of
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