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Bulgaria’s 2019 local elections: Who will be the next mayor of Plovdiv?

September 25, 2019September 30, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria local elections 2019, Plovdiv

Perhaps it may be an annoyance to 12 of the 14 candidates to be the next mayor of Bulgaria’s city

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Tsvetanov, former strongman in Bulgaria’s ruling party, founds NGO on security issues

September 25, 2019September 25, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Tsvetan Tsvetanov, a former Interior Minister in Boiko Borissov’s first government and formerly a deputy leader of Borissov’s GERB party,

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Exhibition on depiction of women in art in 19th and 20th centuries opens in Sofia on September 27

September 25, 2019September 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

An exhibition entitled “Attractive and Ordinary – the Woman in the Oeuvre of European Graphic Artists of the 19th and

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Bulgaria’s Tourism Ministry willing to back possible class action against Thomas Cook

September 25, 2019September 27, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Tourism would be willing to assist Bulgarian hoteliers in lodging class action against bankrupt holiday firm Thomas

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European Council, Parliament agree to appoint Romania’s Kövesi as European Chief Prosecutor

September 25, 2019September 25, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have agreed to appoint Laura Codruța Kövesi, the former head

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Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Croatia call for opening of EU accession talks with Albania, N Macedonia

September 25, 2019September 25, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Meeting in New York during the opening session of the UN General Assembly, the foreign ministers of Bulgaria, Greece, Romania

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Bulgarian Judges Association hits back at SJC over Palfreeman case

September 25, 2019September 25, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian Judges Association, headed by Kalin Kalpakchiev – who presided over the Sofia Court of Appeals proceedings that granted

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Bulgarian hoteliers seek tax break to survive Thomas Cook bankruptcy

September 25, 2019September 25, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria’s Minister of Tourism is to ask for a meeting with the country’s Finance Minister and hoteliers who are seeking

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Flights begin repatriating Thomas Cook customers from Bulgaria

September 24, 2019September 25, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

The repatriation of foreign tourists who had arrived on holiday in Bulgaria on flights of the now-defunct Thomas Cook holiday

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