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Bulgarian Foreign Minister: PM Borissov cannot be criticised for dialogue with Turkey

August 31, 2016September 1, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Bulgaria has done nothing but defend the common EU migration policy in its talks with Turkey, and Prime Minister Boiko

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Bulgaria’s GERB again postpones announcement of presidential candidate

August 29, 2016August 31, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2016

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party has again postponed announcing its candidate in the country’s November 2016 presidential

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov: Bulgaria will not accept migrants from EU

August 28, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis

Bulgaria will not accept migrants returned by any European Union member state while there is no readmission agreement, Bulgarian Prime

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Bulgaria 

Germany to aid Bulgaria in getting more support for border security

August 28, 2016August 30, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Germany will help Bulgaria to get further support for its border security, it emerged after talks between chancellor Angela Merkel

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Bulgarian PM Borissov calls on EU to lift visas for Turkey, to avert migrant wave

August 26, 2016August 29, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, disturbed by the danger of a wave of migrants and refugees crossing from Turkey into

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Bulgarian PM Borissov to meet Turkish counterpart in Istanbul

August 24, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov will meet on August 26 in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim, who requested

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Border Police top officers quit after migrant transport contract given to ‘people-trafficker’

August 15, 2016August 17, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis

Bulgarian Border Police chief Antonio Angelov and senior commissioner Yotko Andreev resigned on August 15 after Prime Minister Boiko Borissov

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM orders Border Police chiefs fired over migrant transport contract

August 15, 2016August 16, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has ordered the dismissal of the top leadership of the Border Police after a contract

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Europe 

Bulgarian leaders send condolences to counterparts in Skopje over fatal floods

August 8, 2016August 11, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Macedonia, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria’s President and its Prime Minister have sent condolences to their counterparts in Skopje after the catastrophic weather this past

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