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Bulgaria’s political parties launch European Parliament election campaigns

April 27, 2014April 29, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

While it may seem a fiction given that Bulgaria’s political parties old and new have been in campaign mode for

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Bulgaria 

Borissov’s GERB ahead of Bulgarian Socialist Party in runup to European Parliament elections – poll

March 28, 2014March 31, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, European Parliament, Sergei Stanishev

Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party has the largest share of support, 17.5 per cent, ahead of the Bulgarian Socialist Party’s

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Bulgaria 

Stanishev’s BSP ‘expels’ Purvanov and ABC allies

March 7, 2014March 7, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Georgi Purvanov, Sergei Stanishev

At a special meeting on March 7, the Bulgarian Socialist Party’s national council voted overwhelmingly for the expulsion of Georgi

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Perspectives 

Thin red line from the Comintern to PES

February 28, 2014March 4, 2014 Alex Bivol European Commission, European Parliament, Sergei Stanishev

When Martin Schulz stands up in front of assorted delegates at the Party of European Socialists congress in Rome on

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Bulgaria 

BSP stood up to ‘subversion’ and government is a success, Stanishev tells congress

February 8, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Georgi Purvanov, Sergei Stanishev

Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Sergei Stanishev has told his party comrades that the current government is working “increasingly successfully and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party ‘withdraws trust’ in Purvanov group

February 1, 2014February 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Georgi Purvanov, Sergei Stanishev

The Bulgarian Socialist Party national council has “withdrawn political trust” in Georgi Purvanov and prominent members of his rival faction

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Bulgaria 

Left side story: Purvanov turns down Stanishev overture

January 31, 2014February 1, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Georgi Purvanov, Sergei Stanishev

Those Sharks and Jets of socialist politics in Bulgaria, Sergei Stanishev’s Bulgarian Socialist Party and Georgi Purvanov’s ABC, remained at

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Bulgaria 

PR deal adds pressure on Bulgaria’s socialist leader

January 30, 2014February 10, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sergei Stanishev

The past six months have presented few opportunities for Bulgarian socialist leader Sergei Stanishev to score PR victories, either at

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government to face motion of no confidence over security sector

January 29, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Sergei Stanishev

Centre-right party GERB, Bulgaria’s parliamentary opposition party and also the single largest party in the 42nd National Assembly, said that

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