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Bulgaria Constitutional Court repeals drugs law amendments

January 29, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court ruled on January 29 to repeal the key provision of the amended law on medicines, passed by

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Bulgarian Prosecutor-General to propose structure to deal with corruption cases

January 29, 2015January 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov said on January 29 that he would propose, in the coming week, a structure to deal

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Bulgaria 

CVM: Another bad report card for Bulgaria

January 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Report card time makes Bulgaria look like a pupil that got into a decent school but is rather shoddy about

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Six Bulgarians abducted in Sudan – Foreign Ministry

January 28, 2015January 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Six Bulgarian nationals working for a company contracted by the United Nations World Food Programme have been captured by rebels

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Ultra-nationalist first among Bulgarian political leaders to congratulate Tsipras

January 28, 2015January 28, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Volen Siderov of far-right ultra-nationalist minority party Ataka was the first Bulgarian political leader to congratulate Alexis Tsipras on his

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Bulgarian President: We cannot allow the memory of the Holocaust to disappear with the last surviving witnesses

January 27, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Rossen Plevneliev

The crimes of Nazism should not be forgotten and the memory of the Holocaust cannot be allowed to disappear with

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Division between Muslims and Christians must not be allowed, Bulgarian PM and Chief Mufti agree

January 27, 2015January 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Division in society between Muslims and Christians should not be tolerated, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and Chief Mufti Mustafa

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarians see little progress in judiciary reform, corruption fight – survey

January 27, 2015January 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission, judiciary

Bulgarians were more downbeat about the progress made by the country in reforming its judiciary and fighting corruption and organised

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EC to criticise Bulgaria’s slow progress on judicial reform, fighting corruption – reports

January 27, 2015January 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission, judiciary

Bulgaria’s progress on judicial reform and combating corruption is slow and the country is to be urged to adopt a

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