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Bulgaria’s eve-of-election no-confidence debate cancelled for lack of quorum

May 23, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

As had been widely expected, the May 23 sitting of Bulgaria’s National Assembly for a debate on the motion of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian-French operation busts Bulgarian organised crime network

May 23, 2014May 23, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian and French judicial and law enforcement authorities, working in close cooperation with the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) at Europol

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Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: Notebook, May 22

May 22, 2014May 25, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European elections 2014

Bulgaria’s political parties have until midnight brings May 23 to an end to make their final moves to win votes

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Bulgaria 56th out of 60 in world competitiveness index

May 22, 2014May 24, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria is in 56th place in the World Competitiveness Yearbook 2014 results, compiled by the Lausanne-based IMD World Competitiveness Centre,

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Don’t all rush: 69 foreigners applied to vote in Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections

May 22, 2014May 24, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European elections 2014

A total of 69 citizens of other European Union countries have applied to vote in Bulgaria’s May 25 2014 European

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch, Chief Mufti underline good relations between Christians and Muslims

May 22, 2014May 23, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgarian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Neofit and Chief Mufti Mustafa Hadji have held talks, emphasising good relations of mutual respect

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Mitsubishi dealer for Bulgaria to alert European HQ over copycat ad by Ataka

May 21, 2014May 22, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Balkan Star Motors, official distributor of Mitsibushi in Bulgaria, is to inform its European office about plagiarism by ultra-nationalist party

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Bulgarian civilians ‘have more firearms than the army’

May 21, 2014May 21, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

A gun control check has found that 211 486 people out of Bulgaria’s population of 7.3 million have firearm licences,

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Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and US to take part in Thracian Star 2014 military exercise

May 21, 2014May 22, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Fighter aircraft from the air forces of Bulgaria, Greece, Romania and the United States will take part in the joint

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