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Bulgarian Parliament autumn sitting opens with promises on anti-corruption, EU Presidency

September 1, 2017September 5, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Kornelia Ninova, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria’s National Assembly opened its autumn sitting on September 1, after a month-long summer recess, with politicians dwelling on promises

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Fellow travellers: Russia, anti-Westernism, and Europe’s political parties

July 18, 2017 Gustav Gressel of the ECFR Volen Siderov

There is a large amount of ideological overlap between some European political parties and the Russian government. Significantly, these include

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Bulgaria 

Borissov’s GERB has 25.7% per cent support, the Bulgarian Socialist Party 19.6% – poll

June 26, 2017June 27, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Kornelia Ninova, Krassimir Karakachanov, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

A few months after Bulgaria’s March 2017 early parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party has 25.7 per

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian former interior ministry chief is now national co-ordinator of Volen Siderov’s Ataka party

June 3, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Volen Siderov

Svetlozar Lazarov, who was chief secretary of Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry from June 2013 to March 2015, is now the national

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Bulgaria 

Controversial former MP for Siderov’s Ataka appointed as Sofia regional governor

May 25, 2017May 26, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria’s coalition cabinet appointed on May 25 as Sofia regional governor, former Ataka MP Ilian Todorov, a figure most in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Defence Ministry official publicly apologises for Hitler salute photograph

May 21, 2017May 23, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian Jews, Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Roumen Radev, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

Ivo Antonov, the Bulgarian Defence Ministry official whose appearance in a photograph showing him giving a Nazi salute compounded the

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Bulgaria 

Nationalists in Bulgarian government mean rocky first fortnight for third Borissov cabinet

May 19, 2017May 21, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian Jews, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria’s National Assembly is hardly ever a place free of acrimonious exchanges, but May 2017 is seeing ever more bitter

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian National Assembly votes third Boiko Borissov government into office

May 4, 2017May 5, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova, Krassimir Karakachanov, Roumen Radev, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria’s unicameral Parliament, the National Assembly, voted Boiko Borissov’s GERB-United Patriots coalition government into office on May 4 2017. The

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s proposed new Borissov coalition cabinet: 10 things to know

May 3, 2017May 5, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Krassimir Karakachanov, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

Boiko Borissov, expected to be elected Bulgaria’s prime minister on May 4 2017, has announced the members of his third

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