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Bulgaria: WCC hits out at President over decision to end consultations

June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

The Kiril Petkov-Assen Vassilev We Continue the Change (WCC) party has described as “strange” President Roumen Radev’s announcement of the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s WCC party begins formal consultations on proposed government

June 28, 2022June 28, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s Kiril Petkov-Assen Vassilev We Continue the Change (WCC) party’s national council gave a mandate on June 28 to start

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria: Delays in consultations push back start of bids to form government

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev’s round of political consultations with parliamentary groups, ahead of handing over a mandate to seek to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s President schedules consultations after government submits resignation

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev scheduled two days of consultations with the country’s seven parliamentary groups on June

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s PM says he will table resignation on June 27

June 23, 2022June 23, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Roumen Radev

Kiril Petkov told reporters in Brussels that he will submit his resignation as Prime Minister on the morning of June

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s PM continuing to seek support against defeat in no-confidence vote

June 18, 2022June 18, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Kiril Petkov, Kornelia Ninova, Roumen Radev, Slavi Trifonov

Bulgarian Prime Minister and We Continue the Change party co-leader Kiril Petkov is continuing to seek support among MPs to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s President asks Biden to speed up delayed delivery of F-16s

March 24, 2022March 26, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Roumen Radev, Russia, Ukraine

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev said on March 24 that he had asked US President Joe Biden to speed up the

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Bulgaria 

Sofia and Warsaw set for talks on Poland maintaining Bulgarian Air Force’s MiG-29s – Radev

March 22, 2022March 23, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev, Russia, Ukraine

Expert teams from Poland and Bulgaria are to hold talks on Polish industry taking over the maintenance of the Bulgarian

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria: Official condemnation, public protests, against Russian invasion of Ukraine

February 24, 2022February 26, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Roumen Radev, Russia, Ukraine

There was a large turnout at a public protest outside the Russian embassy in Sofia on the evening of February

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