Battle looms in Bulgaria over next changes to security services
The embattled Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) government is pressing ahead with its grasping for a consolidation of power through restructuring
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Controversy over Bulgarian pro-government rapper’s anti-Semitic remark continues
The American Jewish Committee (AJC) has become the latest body to speak out after an anti-Semitic remark by rapper Misho
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Bulgaria’s anti-government ‘Oresharski March’ reaches Varna’s Euxinograd residence
Participants in the anti-government “Oresharski March” reached the Euxinograd residence outside the Black Sea city of Varna on August 18,
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Bussing in: Anatomy of a ‘spontaneous’ protest
It was inevitable that someone would give the game away about the “spontaneous” protest by a pro-government crowd outside Bulgaria’s
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Bulgaria’s political crisis: A tale of two protests, in photos
On the day that Bulgaria’s lawmakers overturned the presidential veto on the Budget revision, the National Assembly building, fittingly, found
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Tension in central Sofia as rival protest groups gather outside Parliament during Budget veto debate
Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova called for calm amid tensions in the centre of the Bulgarian capital city as rival protest
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Bulgarian Parliament faces ‘protest siege’ as it discusses budget veto
As Bulgaria’s lawmakers prepare to meet on August 16 to discuss the Presidential veto on the Budget amendments passed by
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60th day of anti-government protests in Bulgaria
Anti-government protests in Bulgaria reached their 60th day on August 12, facing the irony that the “Oresharski March” from Sofia
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Bulgarian Parliament’s summer recess to be interrupted to discuss presidential veto of budget amendments
Bulgaria’s National Assembly will hold a special sitting in the week beginning August 12, interrupting its month-long summer recess, to
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