Germany to aid Bulgaria in getting more support for border security
Germany will help Bulgaria to get further support for its border security, it emerged after talks between chancellor Angela Merkel
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Boiko Borissov: ‘I am afraid of what is going on in Turkey’
Bulgaria’s Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said he was “afraid of what is going on in Turkey”. Referring to that country,
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Bulgarian PM Borissov calls on EU to lift visas for Turkey, to avert migrant wave
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, disturbed by the danger of a wave of migrants and refugees crossing from Turkey into
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Bulgarian nationalist newspaper becomes latest to cease publication
Bulgarian nationalist weekly Desant, owned by National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria leader Valeri Simeonov and self-described as a
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Plovdiv prosecutors order burnt-out tobacco warehouses shored up
Prosecutors in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv have told municipal and national authorities to organise emergency temporary strengthening of the Tobacco Town
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Sofia Restaurant Week in September 2016 – the menus
Excitement is building ahead of the inaugural Sofia Restaurant Week – and eager diners can now scan the menus online
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Bulgaria Now podcast: No smoke without fire
The fire that gutted historic former tobacco warehouses in Plovdiv is the talk of the town – and the country,
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Lawyers: Accused in Plovdiv’s Tobacco Town fire case is a ‘scapegoat’
Lawyers for Lyubomir Danchev, the 44-year-old man charged with arson in connection with the August 20 burning of four historic
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Bulgarian PM Borissov to meet Turkish counterpart in Istanbul
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov will meet on August 26 in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim, who requested
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