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Bulgarian President wraps Brazil visit with pledge to assist building trade ties with EU

February 4, 2016February 7, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev has concluded a three-day visit to Brazil with a pledge to support that

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Bulgarian President: People linked to communist party and secret services still try to dominate society

February 1, 2016February 5, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Dossier Commission, Rossen Plevneliev

A quarter of a century after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the same old people associated with the Communist

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Bulgaria’s current and former presidents call for expanding of direct democracy

January 25, 2016January 27, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2015, Georgi Purvanov, Rossen Plevneliev

Rossen Plevneliev and two of his predecessors as Bulgaria’s President have described the October 2015 national referendum as a success

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Borissov and GERB leave Bulgaria guessing over presidential candidate

January 25, 2016January 26, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian Prime Minister and centre-right GERB party leader Boiko Borissov is keeping the country guessing over who his party’s candidate

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Bulgaria’s GERB party considering five possible candidates for country’s presidential elections

January 23, 2016January 26, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party is discussing five names ahead of choosing its candidate in the country’s

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Nuland discusses energy diversification, security, rule of law with Bulgarian leaders

January 19, 2016January 21, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, energy, Rossen Plevneliev

US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland held talks in Sofia on January 20 2016

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Bulgaria 

President Plevneliev: Bulgaria is stable amid numerous crises surrounding it

January 19, 2016January 21, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev

A record number of crises and the interaction between them are making the world unstable, but Bulgaria’s economy has good

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Year in Review: Politics in Bulgaria in 2015

December 31, 2015January 7, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, energy, judiciary, Rossen Plevneliev, Russia

Politically, the year 2015 was in the main a good one for Bulgarian Prime Minister and GERB party leader Boiko

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Perspectives 

Year in Review: Europe’s migrant crisis and Bulgaria

December 28, 2015January 4, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Greece, Rossen Plevneliev, Syrian refugees, Turkey

More than a million migrants and refugees arrived in Europe by land and sea in 2015, in a crisis that

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