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Leaders in Sofia and Skopje agree on joint measures against migrant-trafficking at border

March 17, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Macedonia

Bulgarian Prime Minister and Republic of Macedonia president Gjorge Ivanov have agreed on joint measures to suppress trafficking of migrants

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Bulgaria to backtrack on ban on camping on beaches

March 14, 2016March 16, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, tourism

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has told his GERB party to table legislation to repeal a highly controversial ban, recently

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM: All EU frontline countries should be able to rely on EU support

March 12, 2016March 14, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis

As an external border of the European Union, Bulgaria has made serious efforts and is strictly applying all the provisions

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Bulgaria 

Borissov’s GERB slightly sheds support but remains by far strongest party in Bulgaria – poll

March 7, 2016March 8, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party, majority partner in the coalition government, has lost about three per cent

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Bulgaria 

Approval ratings of Bulgaria’s courts, prosecution plummet – poll

March 7, 2016March 8, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, judiciary, Rossen Plevneliev

The approval ratings of several of Bulgaria’s institutions, including the country’s courts, prosecution office and Parliament all have plummeted in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria steps up security at strategic sites around the country

March 4, 2016March 7, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Macedonia

Armed security forces were deployed around various strategic sites in Bulgaria on March 4 as the country stepped up security

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Bulgaria 

Europe migrant crisis: Bulgaria set for joint police-military training border control exercise on March 5

March 4, 2016March 7, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Macedonia

Columns of Bulgarian military vehicles headed along Struma Motorway towards the region near the Kulata border checkpoint ahead of the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian parliamentary committee on Russian, Turkish interference in politics set for stillbirth

March 2, 2016March 4, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Russia, Turkey

The first meeting of Bulgaria’s parliamentary special committee to examine allegations of interference by Turkey and Russia in the country’s

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM orders interior, defence ministers to organise joint exercise at borders facing migration pressure

March 2, 2016March 4, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Macedonia

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has instructed the ministers of interior and of defence to organise joint exercises in border

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