Bulgaria’s Food Safety Agency shuts down supplier to Parliament over bad hygiene
Bulgaria’s Food Safety Agency said on May 19 that it had closed down a food preparation facility at the President’s
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Bulgaria’s cabinet doles out some goodies ahead of European Parliament elections – report
A week before Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections on May 25, the country’s cabinet allocated millions of leva for tourism, education,
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Bulgaria monitors rising Danube, shores up river defences, after Serbia floods
Water levels in the stretch of the Danube River that forms the border between Bulgaria and Romania have risen sharply
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Plevneliev accepts Ivanov’s offer on good neighourly relations agreement between Bulgaria and Macedonia
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has written to Gjorge Ivanov, his counterpart in Skopje, accepting his proposal that a 1999 declaration
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Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: Weekend notebook, May 18
A meeting with Tsar Simeon the Great, the thoughts of a latter-day Simeon, and allegations of vote-buying – it could only
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Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: Notebook, May 16
Centre-right opposition GERB handed in to parliamentary officials on May 16 its draft of no confidence in the current Bulgarian
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Bulgaria election rules referendum petition falls short – report
The petition for a referendum on electoral rules in Bulgaria fell short of the 500 000 signatures needed to put
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Muslim leader condemns hacking attack on Bulgarian Orthodox Church website
The Chief Mufti, spiritual leader of Bulgaria’s Muslims, has condemned the hacking attack on the website of the Holy Synod
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Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: Notebook, May 15
A Supreme Administrative Court ruling against billboards by Alfa Ataka TV – overruling a previous decision by the Central Election
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