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Open letter to Europe’s heads of state and government

August 6, 2014August 6, 2014 Letters European Commission

To Europe’s Heads of State and Government: The world will be watching when you select a candidate to lead the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s caretaker cabinet to nominate Kristalina Georgieva to the Juncker European Commission

August 5, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

Bulgaria’s caretaker cabinet will nominate Kristalina Georgieva to the European Commission headed by Jean-Claude Juncker, head of state President Rossen

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Europe 

Juncker rules out Greek debt ‘haircut’ during Athens visit

August 5, 2014August 5, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency European Commission, Greece

Incoming European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has ruled out a “haircut” of Greece’s debt. Visiting Athens on his first trip

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Europe 

EU countries name their candidate European Commissioners

August 1, 2014May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

With Jean-Claude Juncker’s European Commission due to take office in November 2014, the 28 EU member countries are in the

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Bulgaria 

Georgieva poised to be Bulgaria’s European Commission nominee as issue passes to caretaker cabinet

July 24, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency European Commission, European elections 2014, Plamen Oresharski

Attempts by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) for the country to name a candidate European Commissioner other than Kristalina Georgieva

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Bulgaria 

Vigenin confirms his name discussed as Bulgaria’s candidate European Commissioner

July 18, 2014July 18, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission, Kristian Vigenin

Kristian Vigenin, the former MEP who holds the foreign policy portfolio in the soon-to-resign Bulgarian Socialist Party cabinet, has confirmed

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Europe 

EU leaders fail to agree on top jobs, to meet again on August 30

July 17, 2014July 18, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission, Plamen Oresharski

A European Council special meeting on July 16 to discuss who should be the next European Union foreign policy chief

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Bulgaria 

Oresharski: Bulgaria to support Georgieva nomination as next EU foreign policy chief

July 16, 2014July 18, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, European Commission, Plamen Oresharski, Sergei Stanishev

Plamen Oresharski, occupant of the prime minister’s chair in the Bulgarian Socialist Party cabinet, said on July 16 that Bulgaria

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Bulgaria 

Will Bulgaria bet against the house in the European Commission stakes?

July 16, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, European Commission, Kristian Vigenin

In the hours ahead of the July 16 meeting of European Union leaders to discuss top posts in the new

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