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Bulgaria’s election law drama continues after presidential veto

May 8, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on May 8 that he believed that President Rossen Plevneliev was correct to veto

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Bulgaria’s governing coalition backtracks on some controversial election law changes

April 26, 2016April 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

An April 26 emergency meeting involving Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and representatives of parties in the country’s governing coalition has

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Bulgaria 

Election law row: Bulgarian PM to meet coalition government partners

April 25, 2016April 26, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov is to hold talks on April 26 with the four parties in the governing coalition

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian ruling party leader vows ‘no mercy’ for corrupt

April 17, 2016April 18, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov

In a pledge against corruption, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, leader of centre-right party GERB, said that the party’s strongest

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM on ‘migrant hunters’: ‘No one has the right to arrest outside the law’

April 13, 2016April 15, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis

In his latest comment on civilian groups intercepting migrants and refugees near the country’s borders, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian prosecutors start pre-trial proceedings over ‘migrant hunters’

April 12, 2016April 13, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis

Prosecutors in the Bulgarian border town of Malko Turnovo have started pre-trial proceedings in connection with unlawful detention of foreign

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Bulgaria 

Refugee crisis: Bulgaria sending further 300 military to border

April 11, 2016April 13, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Macedonia

Bulgaria is to deploy a further 300 military personnel to its borders to control the flow of refugees, Prime Minister

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Bulgaria 

PM: Bulgaria can protect its borders – even without Nato

April 10, 2016April 12, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bourgas, Europe migrant crisis

Observing a maritime exercise off Bourgas on April 10, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov boasted that his country’s military and

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Opening of new high-tech plant near Plovdiv creates 1200 jobs

April 8, 2016April 11, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Plovdiv

More than 1200 jobs will be created in a new high-tech plant near Plovdiv, an investment of $40 million by

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