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Bulgaria deficit increase weakens a key rating strength, Fitch says

October 7, 2014October 9, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian election 2014, Bulgarian elections 2014

Bulgaria’s proposed budget revisions highlight how the summer’s bank runs, a slowing economy and over-spending are weakening its public finances,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarians and preferential voting: shift happens

October 7, 2014October 9, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian election 2014

Bulgarians appear to have taken to preferential voting with a passion, with more than third who voted in the country’s

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Bulgaria 

Borissov ‘ready to offer cabinet posts to parties in return for responsibility for policies’

October 7, 2014October 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian election 2014, Bulgarian elections 2014

Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party, winner of the most votes in the October 5 elections, intends beginning talks with all

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Bulgaria 

Mistake if youths do not know the truth about communism, fascism and the transition – Plevneliev

October 7, 2014October 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

It would be a strategic mistake if Bulgaria’s youth was not enabled to know the truth about communism, fascism and the

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Bulgaria 

Rival ultra-nationalists together to have 30 seats in Bulgaria’s Parliament

October 7, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria’s ultra-nationalist coalition the Patriotic Front will have 19 seats in Bulgaria’s newly-elected Parliament and its far-right Ataka rivals 11

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian elections 2014: Provisional results after 99.95% of ballots processed

October 6, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian elections 2014

Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB won 32.67 per cent of the votes in Bulgaria’s October 5 2014 early parliamentary elections, according

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Bulgaria 

Pieces of eight: Party perspectives on a Bulgarian coalition

October 6, 2014October 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian election 2014, Bulgarian elections 2014

In the first 24 hours after polls closed in Bulgaria’s October 5 2014 parliamentary elections, the eight parties elected put

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Bulgaria 

GERB to seek to form minority government with Borissov as PM

October 6, 2014October 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian elections 2014

Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB, winner of the largest share of votes in the October 5 parliamentary elections, will seek to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s rocky road to a new governing coalition

October 6, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian elections 2014

After Bulgaria’s October 5 2014 early parliamentary elections, the country faces a rocky road to achieving a new governing coalition,

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