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Bulgarian cabinet to hold special meeting on measures against floods

November 28, 2014November 30, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff floods

A special meeting of Bulgaria’s cabinet will be held on December 1 to discuss new measures against floods, Prime Minister

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Bulgaria’s MRF party expels two MPs from parliamentary group over preferential vote

November 28, 2014November 28, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the third-largest party in the National Assembly, said on November 26 that it had

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Bulgaria will not buy new jet fighters before 2017

November 28, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

The saga of Bulgaria’s long-delayed purchase of new military jet fighters to meet Nato requirements is set to continue unresolved

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Former caretaker finance minister Porozhanov returns to head Bulgaria’s State Fund Agriculture

November 28, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

Roumen Porozhanov, who was finance minister in Bulgaria’s 2014 caretaker cabinet, is again being appointed to head the State Fund

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EIB lends Bulgaria 500M euro to co-finance priority infrastructure investments

November 28, 2014November 30, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending 500 million euro to Bulgaria to co-finance priority projects supported by EU funds

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Bulgaria’s security agency head faces resignation calls after addressing Parliament on anti-terror raid

November 27, 2014November 30, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The head of Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security (SANS), Vladimir Pisanchev, has come under harsh political criticism from parties

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Bulgaria bases policy on national interests, EU values, Foreign Minister tells Russian ambassador

November 27, 2014November 28, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, South Stream

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has held talks with Russian ambassador Yuriy Isakov, telling him that as a member of

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Bulgarian PF co-leader: ‘Only useful thing is to withdraw support from government’

November 27, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The only useful route to take is to withdraw our support from the government, nationalist Patriotic Front (PF) co-leader Krassimir

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Mosque in Bulgaria’s Pazardzhik, focus of anti-terrorism raid, not under jurisdiction of Chief Mufti

November 27, 2014November 27, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

The Ebu Bekir mosque in the Bulgarian town of Pazardzhik that was a focus of a security operation against alleged

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