Bulgarian President Plevneliev, Oresharski in joint statement calling for tolerance towards Syrian refugees
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev and Plamen Oresharski, appointed in May to sit in the prime minister’s chair in the Bulgarian
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Bulgarian prosecutors investigating refugee agency, migration directorate
The Bulgarian Prosecutors’s Office has started an investigation into the handling by the State Agency for Refugees and the Interior
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Two further arrests after beating of ethnic Turkish Bulgarian in Sofia
Police in Sofia have made two further arrests in connection with the serious assault of a Bulgarian man of Turkish
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Sofia police step up security near mosque after man mistaken for refugee seriously assaulted
Police in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia have stepped up security in streets nearby the landmark Banya Bashi mosque after a
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‘Real risk’ of polio reaching Bulgaria from Syria – chief health inspector
There is a real risk that polio could reach Bulgaria because of the growing refugee pressure from Syria, chief health
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Bulgarian media slammed over xenophobia, hate speech in covering refugee issue
Sections of Bulgaria’s electronic and print media have come in for sharp criticism for conveying hate speech during coverage of
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Yovchev: Ready to listen to ‘any good ideas’ about where to house refugees
With the number of refugees now close to 10 000 and the issue having long since turned into a political football,
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Slovakia grants Bulgaria 100 000 euro to help cope with refugee situation
Slovakian president Ivan Gašparovič has handed his Bulgarian counterpart Rossen Plevneliev 100 000 euro as a grant to help Bulgaria
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Bulgaria opens pre-trial proceedings against five for racist speech at anti-refugee demo
The Sofia Prosecutor’s Office said on November 5 2013 that it had opened pre-trial proceedings against five people for speech
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