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Bulgarian coalition government talks: United Patriots leaders arrive at GERB headquarters

March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Volen Siderov

The three leaders of Bulgaria’s nationalist coalition, the United Patriots, were seen arriving at the headquarters of Boiko Borissov’s GERB

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Bulgaria 

GERB leader Borissov: Bulgaria will apply to join euro zone

March 31, 2017April 2, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, euro zone

Boiko Borissov, leader of the centre-right GERB party that won the largest share of seats in Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian authorities reject council bid to abolish Koprivshtitsa’s historical and architectural reserve status

March 30, 2017March 31, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Roumen Radev

A controversial bid by the local council of the Bulgarian town of Koprivshtitsa to abolish its status as an architectural

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Bulgaria 

Russian ambassador to Bulgaria congratulates GERB leader Borissov on election victory

March 30, 2017March 31, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, energy, Russia, South Stream

The Russian ambassador in Sofia, Anatoliy Makarov, has written to centre-right GERB party leader Boiko Borissov congratulating him on his

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s coalition government talks: Nationalists want ministerial posts but have ‘no extraordinary claims’

March 30, 2017March 31, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017

Bulgaria’s nationalist United Patriots coalition wants to have seats in a future GERB cabinet but is making no “extraordinary claims”

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian nationalist leader Simeonov pushes talk of broad ‘German coalition’ government

March 29, 2017March 30, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova

In spite of repeated insistence by GERB leader Boiko Borissov and Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova that they will not

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Bulgaria 

European and foreign policy implications of Bulgaria’s election

March 28, 2017March 30, 2017 Vessela Tcherneva Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova

The EU has dodged a bullet in the Bulgarian elections with the victory of former prime minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party.

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s March 2017 parliamentary elections: The winners and losers

March 27, 2017March 28, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova, Lyutvi Mestan, Volen Siderov

If anyone may fairly be said to have lost Bulgaria’s March 2017 parliamentary elections, Zlatko Zdravkov would be an appropriate

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Bulgaria 

Borissov: GERB is ‘obliged’ to form the next Bulgarian government

March 26, 2017March 28, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017

Speaking just more than an hour after exit polls showed that his centre-right party had gained the most votes in

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