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Market Links poll: GERB-UDF has strong lead ahead of Bulgaria’s early elections

August 28, 2024August 28, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024

Among those who intend voting in Bulgaria’s latest early parliamentary elections, to be held on October 27, Boiko Borissov’s GERB-UDF

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Bulgaria: Dogan’s MRF says it has expelled Peevski and his allies from the party

August 27, 2024August 27, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

The central operational bureau of the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) has decided to expel MRF co-leader and parliamentary

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Bulgaria’s second Glavchev caretaker cabinet: meet the ministers

August 27, 2024February 28, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

Following last week’s contretemps that saw Bulgarian President Roumen Radev refuse to appoint a caretaker cabinet featuring controversial interior minister

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Scepticism, caution about Bulgaria’s second Glavchev caretaker government

August 27, 2024August 27, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024

Reactions from parliamentary groups to the second Dimitar Glavchev caretaker government, which took the oath of office in Parliament on

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Bulgaria’s latest caretaker cabinet takes oath, October 27 early election date decreed

August 27, 2024August 27, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024

The second Dimitar Glavchev caretaker cabinet took the oath of office in the National Assembly on August 27, hours after

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European prosecutors seize assets in latest action in Bulgaria

August 26, 2024August 26, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

In the latest of actions this year announced by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) in Sofia, EPPO secured the

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Bulgarian President approves caretaker cabinet, will decree election date

August 26, 2024August 27, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev approved on August 26 the caretaker cabinet proposed by Dimitar Glavchev – who will have a

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Archaeology: Gold artifacts found in grave of Thracian horseman in Bulgaria

August 23, 2024August 23, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Archaeologists carrying out a dig in the village of Kapitan Petko Voivoda in Bulgaria’s Topolovgrad municipality have found gold artifacts

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Outrage as Bulgarian pro-Kremlin party targets teachers opposed to homophobic law

August 22, 2024August 22, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Outrage has ensued after the Varna branch of Bulgarian pro-Kremlin minority party Vuzrazhdane published a list of educators who signed

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