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Foreign ministers: Bulgaria – Croatia direct flights will boost tourism

May 30, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Croatia

Bulgaria and Croatia hope that direct air flights between the two countries’ capital cities will make a positive contribution to

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Bulgaria 

Former minister for EU presidency: Putin likely to visit Bulgaria in 2018

May 29, 2017May 31, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Roumen Radev, Russia

Russian president Vladimir Putin has been invited to visit Bulgaria in 2018, when the country celebrates 140 years of liberation

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian transport workers suspend protest at Kulata checkpoint after ‘most’ demands met

May 29, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

Bulgarian transport workers who protested at the Kulata border checkpoint with Greece on May 29 ended the protest after talks

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Bulgaria 

Union of Bulgarian Transport Workers to protest at Kulata border checkpoint with Greece on May 29

May 28, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

The Union of Bulgarian Transport Workers says that it is going ahead with a protest at the Kulata border checkpoint

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Bulgaria 

Top cleric complains of absence of Bulgarian Orthodox Church clergy at Radev’s audience with Pope Francis

May 27, 2017May 30, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Roumen Radev

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan of Western and Central Europe, Anthony, has complained that none of the church’s clergy were

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Bulgaria 

40 arrests, thousands of items seized, in Bulgaria, Turkey and France in operation against illegal trade in archaeological objects

May 27, 2017May 30, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency archaeology

A total of 40 people were arrested in Bulgaria, Turkey and France and about 5500 items seized as police bust

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Bulgaria 

Opposition: Appointment of Simeonov to head National Council on Co-operation on Ethnic and Integration Issues is ‘cynicism’

May 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Valeri Simeonov

The appointment of Deputy Prime Minister and nationalist United Patriots co-leader Valeri Simeonov to head Bulgaria’s National Council on Co-operation

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev discusses migration issues, people-trafficking, with Pope Francis

May 26, 2017May 28, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev said that he had held a “very interesting” discussion with Pope Francis on topical issues such

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov: ‘We’ll buy new jet fighters when we’re ready’

May 26, 2017May 28, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Nato

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has hit back after President Roumen Radev, a former Air Force commander, publicly criticised him

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