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Bulgaria’s GERB party has decided on its presidential candidate – senior MPs

June 5, 2016June 7, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party has decided on its candidate for the presidential elections in autumn 2016,

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Bulgaria 

Refugees via Turkey are avoiding route through Bulgaria – Interior Minister

June 1, 2016June 1, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Turkey

Refugees exiting from the territory of Turkey are avoiding the route through Bulgaria, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Rumyana

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian leaders press Macedonian president on reforms

June 1, 2016June 3, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Macedonia, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria’s President and Prime Minister have underlined to visiting Macedonian president Gjorge Ivanov the need to overcome the political crisis

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian military assists Border Police at Kulata checkpoint

May 30, 2016May 31, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Greece

Sixty military personnel from a Blagoevgrad-based unit were continuing to assist Border Police teams at the Kulata checkpoint at Bulgaria’s

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM holds special meeting on migrant crossings at Greek border

May 29, 2016May 31, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Greece

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov called together senior officials for a special meeting in the south-west Bulgarian town of Blagoevgrad

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Bulgaria 

Borissov: I could have been President years ago if I wanted

May 27, 2016August 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2016, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on May 27 that he did not see himself as the unifying right-wing candidate

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Bulgarian prime minister is Brussels’ ‘golden boy’

May 27, 2016May 27, 2016 Deutsche Welle Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has urged Eastern Europe to show more solidarity in the refugee crisis. What are his

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Bulgaria 

Humanitarian assistance cannot substitute for political solutions – Bulgarian PM

May 23, 2016May 25, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

In recent years, the world has been facing humanitarian crises and disasters unprecedented in number, scale and duration, Bulgarian Prime

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM inspects progress on Turkish border fence

May 22, 2016May 25, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov carried out an aerial inspection of progress on the extension to the Bulgarian -Turkish border

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