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Dossier Commission names six Bulgarian Jewish community leaders as former State Security people

September 12, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Dossier Commission

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body charged by law to check people in public life for links to the country’s communist-era

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s SJC elects Georgi Cholakov to head high court

September 11, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) elected Georgi Cholakov as the next head of the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC), one of

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Bulgaria 

Corruption claims: Another Bulgarian MEP comes to the defence of country’s border police

September 11, 2017September 11, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Bulgarian member of the European Parliament Emil Radev has become the second to come to the defence of the country’s

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Bulgarian politicians again divided over anniversary of September 1944 Soviet invasion

September 8, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

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

September 8, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

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

September 8, 2017September 12, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria has no national legal regulation on the practice of nudism, Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova told the National Assembly during

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian supreme court rules in Kara Dere case: Camping outside official campsites is not illegal

September 8, 2017September 12, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

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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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government grants 100M leva for urgent repairs to national roads

September 7, 2017September 11, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

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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Bulgaria 

Fifty asylum-seekers relocated from Greece to Bulgaria in two years – European Commission report

September 7, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Refugees

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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