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PM Holds Working Meeting with Leadership of Interior Ministry, Refugee Agency and Security Services
November 28 (BTA) - Outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borissov met with the operational leaderships of the Interior Ministry, the State Agency for Refugees, Border Police and the security services on Monday morning to discuss the implementation of an action plan for dealing with emer...
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BTA's Former Havana Bureau Chief Looks at Castro's Legacy
Sofia, November 28 (BTA) - Svetlozar Nikolov, the English-language editor of Daily News, was the chief of BTA's Havana bureau from 1976 to 1981. We spoke to him a couple of days after Raul Castro announced the passing of his brother and long-serving Cuban leader Fidel Castro....
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Freedom and Dignity People's Party Elects New Leader
November 27 (BTA) - The delegates to the first national congress of the Freedom and Dignity People's Party (FDPP) elected Orhan Ismailov as its Chairman on Sunday. The outgoing deputy defence minister is replacing Korman Ismailov, who will be the party's Deputy Chairman.
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First 10 Members of Bulgarian Antarctic Expedition Reach Base
November 27 (BTA) - On November 26, the first group of 10 members of the Bulgarian Antarctic expedition reached the St. Kliment Ohridski Base on Livingston Island on board the Chilean ship Lautaro. Shortly after they disembarked the ship, brash ice closed the bay preventing the b...
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Investor Shows Interest in Belene N-plant Project -Former Energy Minister
November 27 (BTA) - Former energy minister Roumen Ovcharov said in a Nova TV interview on Sunday that Bulgaria suffered a detriment after the project for construction of a second nuclear power plant at Belene was scrapped. He said an investor had shown interest in the project but...
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Court Orders Indefinite Custody for Afghan Who Burned Bulgarian Flag
November 27 (BTA) - The Specialized Court has ordered indefinite custody for an Afghan man who was arrested on Thursday after burning a Bulgarian national flag during unrest at a migrant registration and reception centre in the southern town of Harmanli. He also threw a stone at ...
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Democrats for Strong Bulgaria Leader Proposes Compact for New Right-wing "Unification of Free People, Not Parties"
November 26 (BTA) - In an address to a national meeting of the right-wing Democrats for Strong Bulgaria (DSB) held here on Saturday, the leader of the party, Radan Kanev, said that a compact is needed for a new Bulgarian republic that unites the free people.
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Socialist Party Calls Congress on February 4-5
November 26 (BTA) - The National Council of the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) decided Saturday to schedule a party congress for February 4-5, BSP leader Kornelia Ninova told a news briefing. Commissions were set up Saturday to prepare the party platform for the early general el...
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Medical Checks Start of Migrants Accommodatedin Harmanli Centre
November 26 (BTA) - Seven doctors, among them specialists in infection and parasitic diseases, dermatologists and a surgeon, are examining the migrants accommodated at the centre in this town after an outbreak of unrest on Thursday and Friday.
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Sofia University Makes It into Times Higher Education Rating in 2016
November 25 (BTA) - In 2016 the St Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia made it into the Times Higher Education Rating for the first time, and climbed 50 notches in the QS World University Rankings, Rector Anastas Gerdjikov said at the academic event marking the University's patr...
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316 Million Leva Provided in Grant Aid in 99 Contracts Signed in 2016 under Science and Education for Smart Growth Opera...
November 25 (BTA) - In 2016 seven calls were announced for project proposals under the Science and Education for Smart Growth Operational Programme (OP), and 99 contracts on the provision of grant aid were concluded, worth 316 million leva, Education and Science Minister Meglena ...
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Child Protection Agency Presents Priorities for 2017
November 25 (BTA) - The State Agency for Child Protection (SACP) presented its priorities for 2017 in Lovech on Friday.
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Prime Minister Calls Emergency Meeting over Refugee Centre Unrest, Postpones Visit to Hungary
November 25 (BTA) - Outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borissov Friday evening said some 1,000 persons would be resettled in closed-type holding centres using shipping container-style homes and former barracks along the border, to be guarded as people who break public order. He was ...
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Interior Ministers of Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey Open Trilateral Contact Centre for Police and Customs Cooperation
November 25 (BTA) - Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister Roumyana Buchvarova and her counterparts of Greece and Turkey, Nikolaos Toskas and Suleyman Soylu, opened here Friday a new trilateral contact centre for police and customs cooperation. Joint teams will ...
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New Charge Brought against Outgoing Defence Minister Nenchev
November 25 (BTA) - The Sofia Military District Prosecutor's Office on Friday pressed a second charge against outgoing Defence Minister Nikolay Nenchev of serious malfeasance in office committed with a subordinate's complicity.
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Consultative Council on National Security to Meet on November 29
November 25 (BTA) - President Rosen Plevneliev will convene the Consultative Council on National Security on November 29. On its agenda are the current political situation in the country and mapping out of measures for recovery from the political crisis. President-elect Rumen ...
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MPs Meet with Representatives of National Referendum Initiative Committee
November 24 (BTA) - Bulgarian parliamentarians Thursday met with Ivo Siromahov and Toshko Hadjitodorov of the 2016 National Referendum Initiative Committee to discuss the three questions put to the public on November 6. MPs of GERB, BSP-Left Bulgaria, ABV, Democrats for Strong Bu...
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Unrest in Harmanli Refugee Accommodation Facility Under Control, Authorities Say
November 24 (BTA) - Unrest in the refugee accommodation centre in the southern town of Harmanli has developed to the point of revolt, Haskovo Interior Ministry division spokesperson Nina Nikolova said Thursday. According to police information, about 2,000 went out in the square f...
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Bulgaria for the Citizens Movement: "Two-Round Majoritarian System with Absolute Majority Is Dangerous for Bulgaria"
November 24 (BTA) - According to the Bulgaria for the Citizens Movement (BCM) Party, which is part of the Reformist Bloc, a two-round majoritarian system with absolute majority is dangerous for Bulgaria and will have bad consequences for Bulgaria's democratic process, Dimiter Del...
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An Outgoing Parliament Should Not Normally Correct an Outgoing Cabinet - Budgetary Committee Chair
November 24 (BTA) - There is a principled political decision not to change the figures of the 2017 draft budget between first and second reading, the parliamentary Budgetary Committee Chair Menda Stoyanova said Thursday here. She met with representatives of the Confederation of I...
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