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After Simeonov’s resignation as Bulgaria’s Deputy PM: The big questions

November 16, 2018November 18, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Valeri Simeonov

Journalists in Bulgaria who may have expected the sharply chilly late autumn evening of November 16 to present nothing other

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Bulgaria 

Valeri Simeonov: Why I resigned as Bulgaria’s Deputy PM

November 16, 2018November 18, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Valeri Simeonov

Valeri Simeonov, a co-leader of Bulgaria’s government minority coalition partner the United Patriots, said on November 16 that his surprise

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Bulgaria 

Valeri Simeonov resigns as Bulgaria’s Deputy Prime Minister

November 16, 2018November 17, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Valeri Simeonov

Valeri Simeonov, co-leader of the minority coalition partner in Bulgaria’s government the United Patriots, resigned as Deputy Prime Minister on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian nationalist party seeks firm to clean eggs off its building

November 7, 2018November 10, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Valeri Simeonov

Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov’s National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria party is seeking a firm to clean off

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Bulgaria 

Deputy PM Simeonov rejects calls to resign over State Agency for Bulgarians Abroad case

November 1, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Valeri Simeonov

Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov has rejected as “inappropriate” calls from three political parties for him to resign over the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian opposition socialists declare boycott of parliamentary proceedings, seeking Simeonov’s resignation

October 31, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Valeri Simeonov

A campaign to get Valeri Simeonov, co-leader of Bulgarian government minority partner the United Patriots, to resign as Deputy Prime

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government removes Simeonov as head of National Council for Co-operation on Ethnic and Integration Issues

October 25, 2018October 25, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Valeri Simeonov

The Bulgarian government has removed Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov as head of the Cabinet’s National Council for Co-operation on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Deputy PM Simeonov’s apology falls on stony ground

October 24, 2018October 25, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Valeri Simeonov

After days of insisting that he would not apologise for controversial remarks that have led to protests demanding his resignation,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian coalition government minority partner and the Simeonov controversy: Shaken and stirred

October 24, 2018October 24, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Krassimir Karakachanov, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

The political melodrama in the United Patriots, the minority partner in Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s coalition government, left the “Patriots”

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