‘Constructive’ talks leave GERB, BSP divided on key issues
Four hours of talks between negotiating teams from GERB and the Bulgarian Socialist Party established common ground on some policy
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Bulgaria’s GERB begins formal negotiations on coalition government
A week and a day after Bulgaria’s October 5 early parliamentary elections, and after days of foot-stamping and posturing, formal
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Barekov’s BWC spent more than a million leva on election campaign advertising – NGO
Former talk show host Nikolai Barekov’s populist Bulgaria Without Censorship (BWC) coalition was again the biggest spender in the October
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Siren alarm system to be tested in several Bulgarian cities on October 13
Civil defence sirens will sound in Sofia and several other Bulgarian cities and towns on October 13 2014 at 1pm
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French ambassador queries Bulgarian nationalist party’s commemoration of assassin
France’s ambassador in Sofia, Xavier Lapeyre de Cabanes, has written to the leader of Bulgarian ultra-nationalist party VMRO querying the
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Bulgaria, Russia embroiled in new diplomatic spat
For the second time in the space of one week, officials in Sofia and Moscow exchanged harsh words, after Russia’s
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EC proposes 10.5M euro from Solidarity Fund to aid Bulgaria recover from June 2014 floods
The European Commission has proposed granting 10.5 million euro to Bulgaria to help cover emergency costs in dealing with the
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Borissov: Coalition partners will get ministries but GERB will not govern with BSP, MRF
Boiko Borissov says his GERB party will make the compromise in negotiations on a future government of other parties sharing
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Bulgarians have about 400M leva in Swiss banks – revenue agency
Bulgarians hold about 400 million leva (about 204.69 million euro) in banks in Switzerland, according to calculations by Bulgaria’s National
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