Bulgaria fires motor vehicle inspector filmed bullying Turkish lorry driver for a bribe
Footage filmed by a Turkish lorry driver of how he was forced by a Bulgarian Motor Vehicle Administration roadside inspector
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Battle lines drawn in Bulgaria over plan for October referendum on voting system
Political battle lines are being drawn over the plan for Bulgarians to vote in a national referendum on the electoral
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Bill lifting banking secrecy rules filed in Bulgarian Parliament
The ad hoc committee tasked with investigating the circumstances that led to the bankruptcy of Bulgaria’s fourth-largest lender has filed
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Metro construction causes sinkhole in a Sofia boulevard
Part of a pavement and roadway in Sofia’s Cherni Vruh Boulevard collapsed on June 4, creating a large hole, apparently
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President Plevneliev tables proposal in Parliament for referendum along with local elections on October 25
Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev has tabled in the National Assembly a proposal to hold a national referendum
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Bulgarian Cabinet approves bill to implement EU bank recovery directive
Bulgaria’s government approved on June 3 a bill implementing the provisions of EU’s the bank recovery and resolution directive, a
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PM: Mass address re-registrations to sway elections to be cancelled
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has told his GERB party to accept a proposal by the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party
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Borissov’s GERB has most support but slipping, BSP still a poor second but gaining – poll
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party remains the country’s most-supported political force with 24.5 per cent of voters
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Opening of Bulgaria’s communist Military Intelligence files irks socialists
The order by Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev to transfer communist-era Military Intelligence archives to the Dossier Commission – the
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