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Bulgaria’s political parties launch European Parliament election campaigns

April 27, 2014April 29, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

While it may seem a fiction given that Bulgaria’s political parties old and new have been in campaign mode for

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria hopes no new round of sanctions against Russia – Oresharski

April 2, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Plamen Oresharski, Russia, Ukraine, Volen Siderov

Plamen Oresharski, occupant of the prime minister’s chair in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government, has told the National Assembly that

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Bulgaria 

Borissov’s GERB ahead of Bulgarian Socialist Party in runup to European Parliament elections – poll

March 28, 2014March 31, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, European Parliament, Sergei Stanishev

Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party has the largest share of support, 17.5 per cent, ahead of the Bulgarian Socialist Party’s

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Bulgaria 

Public approval of Bulgarian government, parliament drops even further – poll

February 18, 2014February 23, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Peevski protests, Plamen Oresharski, Rossen Plevneliev

Public approval of the Bulgarian Socialist Party government and the 42nd National Assembly, the country’s unicameral parliament, has dropped even

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Bulgaria 

Boiko Borissov’s GERB elects three deputy leaders

February 16, 2014February 18, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party has finessed the Tsvetan Tsvetanov problem by adding two additional deputy leaders to the party.

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Borissov and Tsvetanov – tandem on the rocks?

February 14, 2014February 16, 2014 Alex Bivol Boiko Borissov, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

On the eve of Bulgaria’s former ruling party GERB’s national congress, one that is expected to usher in some change

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government to face motion of no confidence over security sector

January 29, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Sergei Stanishev

Centre-right party GERB, Bulgaria’s parliamentary opposition party and also the single largest party in the 42nd National Assembly, said that

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Perspectives 

For Bulgaria, ‘months of permanent scandal ahead’

January 28, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Georgi Purvanov, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

Political commentator Dimitar Ganev, speaking on Bulgarian National Radio on January 28, said that months of permanent scandal lay ahead

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Bulgaria 

Purvanov project hits BSP, Borissov’s GERB back in the lead – poll

January 26, 2014May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Georgi Purvanov, Peevski protests, Rossen Plevneliev, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

The Bulgarian Socialist Party has been hard-hit by the relaunch of Georgi Purvanov’s ABC movement, with the wedge driven into

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