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Bulgarian Interior Minister: No tension at the border

April 16, 2016April 19, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

There is no tension at Bulgaria’s borders but the country has to be ready for any eventuality, Interior Minister Roumyana

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Bulgaria: MiG engines wanted, new or used

April 15, 2016April 19, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry has called a tender to acquire 10 engines for the air force’s Soviet-era Mig-29 jet fighters, specifying

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Court orders house arrest for Bulgarian ‘migrant hunter’ pending trial

April 15, 2016April 17, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The District Court in the south-eastern Bulgarian town of Malko Turnovo on April 15 ordered “migrant hunter” Petar “The Feathers”

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Bulgarian birth rate continues to drop – statistics institute

April 15, 2016April 16, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The number of live births in Bulgaria in 2015 was lower than the previous year, with the country’s population continuing

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Most preferred destinations for Bulgarian emigrants are Germany, UK and Spain

April 15, 2016April 16, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Close to 30 000 Bulgarians left the country in 2015, the largest shares heading to Germany, the United Kingdom and

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Average Bulgarian marriage lasts 15.3 years

April 15, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The average duration of a marriage in Bulgaria before divorce was 15.3 years in 2015, according to the National Statistical

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Bulgarian MPs adopt bill to make public CCB consultants report

April 14, 2016April 15, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Amendments to the bank insolvency law, passed by Bulgaria’s Parliament at second reading on April 14, require receivers to make

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Bulgarian to Macedonian president: Corruption should be investigated, not amnestied

April 14, 2016April 15, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Macedonia, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has telephoned his counterpart in Skopje, Gjorge Ivanov, to express his country’s concerns about the political

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Bulgaria’s top judiciary body splits into separate colleges

April 14, 2016April 14, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council approved on April 14 a decision of how to distribute its current members into the new

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