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Bulgaria’s regional development minister promises changes to plan for Strandzha nature park

January 31, 2014February 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Regional Development Minister Desislava Terzieva says that she has initiated a process to change controversial plans that pave the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s European Commissioner, church Patriarch in call for religious and ethnic tolerance

January 31, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgaria’s European Commissioner, church Patriarch in call for religious and ethnic tolerance Bulgaria’s European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva and Bulgarian Orthodox

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Bulgaria 

PR deal adds pressure on Bulgaria’s socialist leader

January 30, 2014February 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sergei Stanishev

The past six months have presented few opportunities for Bulgarian socialist leader Sergei Stanishev to score PR victories, either at

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Bulgaria 

Student protesters who occupied Sofia University say they will sue rector for slander

January 30, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

The group of student anti-government protesters who carried out the second short-lived “occupation” of the central campus of Sofia University

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Panagyurishte treasure is state property, Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court rules

January 30, 2014February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The Panagyurishte treasure is state property, a seven-member panel of Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has ruled, rejecting an appeal lodged

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Bad weather causes continued traffic disruption in north-eastern Bulgaria

January 30, 2014February 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Traffic disruptions continued on January 30 in north-eastern Bulgaria, the area affected the worst by the snowstorms earlier this week,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament rejects far-right Ataka’s anti-gay law

January 30, 2014February 10, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Volen Siderov

Amendments to Bulgaria’s Penal Code proposed by ultra-nationalist Ataka party leader Volen Siderov that would have imposed jail and huge

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New Penal Code controversy: Numismatists and antique dealers are rattled

January 30, 2014January 31, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian Socialist Party government’s proposed new Penal Code has lurched into yet another controversy, this time by upsetting coin

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Bulgarian President wants referendum on electoral law 2-in-1 with European Parliament elections

January 29, 2014February 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev announced on January 29 2014 that he would ask the National Assembly to agree to the

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