Bulgaria to pay Palfreeman 3500 euro following ECHR ruling on freedom of expression
Bulgaria’s cabinet agreed at a regular meeting on November 30 to pay Australian murder convict Jock Palfreeman 3500 euro following
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Bulgaria January-October 2016 Budget surplus at 3.44B leva, above forecast
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first 10 months of 2016 was 3.44 billion leva,
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Bulgarian political crisis: Borissov’s party refuses to support a new government in current Parliament
The parliamentary group of Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party decided on November 30 that it would not support any attempt
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Bulgarian nationalists begin informal talks on possible formation of government
Bulgaria’s nationalist parliamentary group the Patriotic Front has begun behind-the-scenes talks on attempting to form a government, should President Rossen
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68% of Bulgarians want a caretaker government and early elections – Alpha Research poll
Sixty-eight per cent of Bulgarians want a caretaker government appointed and early parliamentary elections called, according to a poll by
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Bulgaria’s political crisis: Formation of new government without early elections still a slim possibility
A November 29 meeting of Bulgaria’s Consultative Council for National Security, convened by President Rossen Plevneliev, has left in place
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church formally rejects Pan-Orthodox Council
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, has formally rejected the Pan-Orthodox Council and its conclusions, it emerged
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Archaeology: Ancient Theatre in Plovdiv is a bit more ancient than it was thought
A newly-found inscription has shown that the Ancient Theatre in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv, long thought to date back to
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Nineteen face criminal charges over Bulgaria’s Harmanli refugee centre riots
Nineteen foreign citizens face criminal charges, mainly for hooliganism, after the unrest at the refugee centre in the southern Bulgarian
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