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Bulgaria’s political crisis: opposition rejects acting PM’s challenge to form cabinet

February 25, 2013May 27, 2013 Alex Bivol Boiko Borissov, Sergei Stanishev

Bulgaria’s two largest opposition parties, the socialists and the predominantly ethnic Turk Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), have rejected

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Bulgaria’s political crisis: Borissov challenges socialists, MRF to form government

February 25, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Rossen Plevneliev

Moments after formally turning down the offer to form a government anew, Boiko Borissov challenged the opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party

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Bulgarian PM: Dyankov fired over e-government, economic growth failures

February 19, 2013June 2, 2013 Alex Bivol Boiko Borissov, Simeon Dyankov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov praised former finance minister Simeon Dyankov for keeping sound fiscal discipline and keeping Bulgaria’s government

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Positive messages on bilateral relations after Borissov meets Gruevski in Skopje

February 17, 2013June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Macedonia

An evening meeting in Skopje between Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and his Macedonian counterpart Nikola Gruevski on February 16

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Bulgaria’s Belene referendum campaign sends political rivals into meltdown

January 25, 2013June 2, 2013 Alex Bivol Belene, Boiko Borissov, energy, Sergei Stanishev

If there was any doubt that Bulgaria’s referendum on the future development of nuclear energy was a proxy war between

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Bulgarian PM coy on South Stream, gas deal talks ongoing

November 13, 2012June 2, 2013 Alex Bivol Boiko Borissov, energy, South Stream

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov did not confirm, on November 13, reports in Bulgarian language media that he would attend

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The Belene nuclear project, Bulgaria’s radioactive political issue

October 19, 2012June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Belene, Boiko Borissov, nuclear, Rossen Plevneliev, Sergei Stanishev

The farce into which Bulgaria’s planned national referendum on whether to proceed with the Belene nuclear power station has rapidly

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Fighting words: Bulgaria talks tough on Russian energy projects

September 13, 2012June 2, 2013 Alex Bivol Belene, Boiko Borissov, energy, Russia, Simeon Dyankov, South Stream

Vladimir Putin raised quite a few eyebrows when his last foreign visit as president of Russia in 2008 was to

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Bulgarian Government moves to quell protests over Forestry Act

June 15, 2012May 27, 2013 Alex Bivol Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and MPs from ruling party GERB met on June 15 with representatives of conservation groups

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