French president Macron backs Bulgaria’s Schengen, euro zone bids
Emmanuel Macron’s tour of Eastern Europe reached Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast on August 25, where, in meetings with President Roumen
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Bulgarian President Radev vetoes Environmental Protection Act amendments
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev said on August 8 that he was vetoing recently-passed amendments to the Environmental Protection Act meant
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Bulgarian President Radev: Handling of jet fighter acquisition process ‘not the best signal’ abroad
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has cited the handling of the fighter jet acquisition process as an example of how not
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Bulgarian Defence Chief: No external interference in choosing new fighter jet
Bulgaria’s Defence Chief General Andrei Botsev has rejected allegations of external interference and corruption in the process towards choosing a
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Bulgaria’s President Radev accuses government of procrastinating about fighter jet acquisition
The prolonged political tussle in Bulgaria about the fighter jet acquisition process continued on July 10 with President Roumen Radev
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Bulgarian PM Borissov: Sole requirement in jet fighter acquisition is that they should be new
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on July 7 that his sole requirement in the process of acquiring jet fighters
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Dossier Commission names two of President Radev’s staff as former State Security people
Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body charged by law with exposing people in public life who worked for the country’s communist-era
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Bulgarian President Radev: Former defence minister Nenchev ‘crashed’ in MiG-29 overhaul deal
Bulgaria’s President and former Air Force commander Roumen Radev said on July 4 that former defence minister Nikolai Nenchev had
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Bulgarian PM Borissov and President Radev in show of unity on military modernisation, anti-corruption and foreign policy
Against a background of recent tensions between Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party and President Roumen Radev, the heads
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