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Bulgaria’s Georgieva selected for second five-year term as head of IMF

April 13, 2024April 13, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff IMF, Kristalina Georgieva

The Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) selected Kristalina Georgieva to serve as IMF managing director for a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov holds talks with IMF head Georgieva

January 19, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, IMF, Kristalina Georgieva

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov held talks in Sofia with International Monetary Fund (IMF) managing director Kristalina Georgieva on January

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva named new IMF managing director

September 25, 2019September 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff IMF, Kristalina Georgieva

The executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) selected on September 25 Kristalina Georgieva to serve as IMF Managing

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Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva is sole candidate to head IMF

September 9, 2019September 11, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Kristalina Georgieva

Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva is the sole candidate to be the next managing director of the International Monetary Fund, the IMF

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Zaharieva: Bulgaria, Romania underrepresented in European foreign policy arm

August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Kristalina Georgieva, Romania

Unfortunately, Bulgaria and Romania are still underrepresented in the European External Action Service, and the two countries have excellent diplomats,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Georgieva: ‘Honoured to be nominated to head IMF’

August 3, 2019August 6, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, World Bank

Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva said that it was an honour to be nominated to be the next managing director of the

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Bulgaria 

EU finance chiefs nominate Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva to head IMF

August 2, 2019August 5, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, World Bank

Bulgaria’s Kristalina Georgieva, chief executive of the World Bank, narrowly beat the Netherlands’ Jeroen Dijsselbloem – a former head of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov: Cabinet to discuss European Commissioner nomination on May 10

May 5, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, European Commission, Kristalina Georgieva

Starting his third term as Bulgaria’s Prime Minister, Boiko Borissov has told European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker that his cabinet

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Bulgaria 

Political row in Bulgaria over nomination of European Commissioner to replace Georgieva

December 1, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Kristalina Georgieva, Rossen Plevneliev

In the weeks since Boiko Borissov’s resignation as prime minister, several questions have faced the country, not least of which

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