Number of Afghans wanting to return home from Bulgaria could reach 500 – Interior Minister
About 300 Afghan citizens have applied for voluntary return to their country from Bulgaria and this number could reach 500,
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Bulgaria reports 0.7% economic growth in Q3 2016
Bulgaria’s economy grew by 0.7 per cent in the third quarter of the year, according to preliminary data announced by
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Bulgaria has detained more than 17 700 migrants illegally in country so far in 2016
From the start of 2016 until November 24, the Bulgarian Interior Ministry apprehended a total of 17 717 migrants who
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Interior Minister Buchvarova: Reports about planned terrorist attack in Bulgaria untrue
Bulgarian Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova has indicated that allegations about plans for a terrorist attack in Bulgaria are untrue. “There
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Bulgarian Interior Minister: Tipoff received via diplomatic channels on plans for terrorist attack
Bulgaria had received an alert via diplomatic channels of plans for a terrorist attack in the country, Interior Minister Roumyana
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Bulgaria’s political crisis: Scant chance election rules will change before 2017 vote
In spite of the outcome of Bulgaria’s controversy-ridden November 2016 national referendum on changes to the political system – including
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Bulgaria’s outgoing PM discusses migration crisis, presidential elections with US ambassador
In talks on December 5, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov discussed the migration crisis and the outcomes of the presidential
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Siderov: Bulgaria’s nationalist ‘patriotic bloc’ will stand united in 2017 parliamentary elections
Bulgaria’s far-right Ataka party leader Volen Siderov said on December 4 that the group of nationalist formations that had a
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s Holy Synod to choose between two candidates to be Stara Zagora Metropolitan
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, will on December 11 choose from between two candidates to be
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