Bulgarian Parliament autumn sitting opens with promises on anti-corruption, EU Presidency
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
There is a large amount of ideological overlap between some European political parties and the Russian government. Significantly, these include
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Borissov’s GERB has 25.7% per cent support, the Bulgarian Socialist Party 19.6% – poll
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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Bulgarian former interior ministry chief is now national co-ordinator of Volen Siderov’s Ataka party
Svetlozar Lazarov, who was chief secretary of Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry from June 2013 to March 2015, is now the national
Read moreControversial former MP for Siderov’s Ataka appointed as Sofia regional governor
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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Bulgarian Defence Ministry official publicly apologises for Hitler salute photograph
Ivo Antonov, the Bulgarian Defence Ministry official whose appearance in a photograph showing him giving a Nazi salute compounded the
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Nationalists in Bulgarian government mean rocky first fortnight for third Borissov cabinet
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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Bulgarian National Assembly votes third Boiko Borissov government into office
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’s proposed new Borissov coalition cabinet: 10 things to know
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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