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Will Boiko’s boycott tactics spoil his own future?

September 27, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov

ince the Bulgarian Socialist Party government came to power in May 2013, opposition leader and former prime minister Boiko Borissov

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Bulgaria 

Another day of debacle and disputes in Bulgaria’s no-confidence ‘debate’

September 26, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Plamen Oresharski

The second attempt at holding the debate in Parliament on opposition party GERB’s motion of no confidence in the Bulgarian

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament sitting to debate no-confidence motion scuttled by lack of quorum

September 25, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Peevski protests

Bulgaria’s unicameral Parliament, the National Assembly, was scheduled to begin debate on September 25 on the first motion of no

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian autumn and the ‘new’ political forces

September 23, 2013September 23, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov

Autumn came to Bulgaria on the night of September 22 2013, at the close of a weekend that had seen

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s GERB rethinks no-confidence motion topic

September 18, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgaria’s opposition party GERB will table the motion of no confidence in the current government on September 19, but instead

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Bulgaria 

Borissov’s GERB to table no-confidence motion over cabinet’s ‘overall policy’

September 17, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Boiko Borissov’s centre-right party GERB – the largest single party in Parliament but also the opposition – is to table

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Bulgaria 

As Bulgarian anti-government protests reach 80th day, poll shows increasing disapproval of government

September 1, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Peevski protests, Plamen Oresharski, Rossen Plevneliev, Sergei Stanishev

Anti-government protests demanding the immediate resignation of the Bulgarian Socialist Party administration reached their 80th day on September 1, with

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament’s summer recess to be interrupted to discuss presidential veto of budget amendments

August 11, 2013August 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Peevski protests, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria’s National Assembly will hold a special sitting in the week beginning August 12, interrupting its month-long summer recess, to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian pro-government rapper in anti-Semitic slur against former finance minister

August 1, 2013August 1, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Peevski protests, Plamen Oresharski

A controversial rapper who has been a vocal leader of the daily gatherings of about 100 people in support of

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