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Radev in Paris: Accepting Bulgaria into Schengen key to security in Europe

December 4, 2017December 6, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev, Schengen

Accepting Bulgaria into the EU’s Schengen visa zone would be an important factor in enhancing security in Europe because the

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Bulgaria 

Radev and Anastasiades: Bulgaria, Cyprus share positions on energy, migration, growth policies

November 28, 2017November 28, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Cyprus, Roumen Radev

Bulgaria and Cyprus have signed a memorandum of co-operation in the field of shipping and a three-year programme for co-operation

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Tensions between Bulgaria’s President and governing majority not dissipating

November 13, 2017November 14, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Roumen Radev, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

The difficult relationship between Bulgaria’s President Roumen Radev and Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s governing majority shows no sign of dissipating,

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Bulgaria 

President Radev on Soviet monuments: It’s up to the Bulgarian foreign ministry to respond to the Russian foreign ministry

November 11, 2017November 12, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Plovdiv, Roumen Radev, Russia

There is a clear protocol, that the Bulgarian foreign ministry should respond to the Russian foreign ministry, Bulgarian President Roumen

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Bulgaria 

Four Bulgarian presidents at unveiling of plaque to first democratically-elected head of state Zhelyu Zhelev

November 7, 2017November 7, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Rossen Plevneliev, Roumen Radev

Bulgaria’s fifth democratically-elected head of state Roumen Radev and three living former presidents attended a November 7 ceremony to unveil

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev: Russian claim to have rescued Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust is ignorance or provocation

November 4, 2017November 6, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews, Roumen Radev, Russia

The claim that it was the Soviet army that rescued Bulgarian Jews from deportation to the Holocaust is either deep

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Aviation Association on fighter pilot controversy: Aviation capacity at ‘critically low level’

October 29, 2017October 31, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Roumen Radev

The Bulgarian Aviation Association (BAA) has spoken out in an open letter to the country’s leaders following the controversy around

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev on the non-flying fighter pilots: ‘Dissatisfaction understandable’

October 26, 2017October 27, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President and former Air Force commander Roumen Radev has effectively sided with the MiG-29 pilots who declined to take

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President appoints Georgi Cholakov to head high court

October 23, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has signed the decree appointing Georgi Cholakov as the next head of the Supreme Administrative Court

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