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Year: 2012

Bulgaria Business News 

Improved infrastructure to boost Bulgaria’s tourism industry in 2013, hotel and restaurant body says

August 28, 2012June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria’s tourism industry expects a 10 to 15 per cent growth in tourism in 2013, mainly because of major infrastructure

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Beach at Lozenets on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgaria Business Leisure News 

Bulgarian Black Sea resorts cut prices after peak season passes

August 28, 2012August 28, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

With the end of August and the passing of the peak summer season, Bulgaria’s Black Sea coastal resort hotels have

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Bulgaria Europe Leisure News 

Bulgaria’s first electronic border control counters opened at Sofia Airport

August 28, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The first electronic border control desks in Bulgaria were opened at Sofia Airport’s Terminal 2 on August 28 2012. The

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Westinghouse picked to do Kozloduy plant new unit study

August 27, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgarian Energy Holding’s board of directors signed on August 27 a contract US nuclear consultancy firm Westinghouse to carry out

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Bulgaria News 

Relatives of Bourgas terrorist bombing victims visiting Bulgaria for commemorative ceremonies

August 27, 2012August 27, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Relatives of the five Israeli citizens who died in a suicide bomb attack by an as-yet unidentified terrorist in Bourgas

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Bulgaria News 

Stanishev seeks to stop socialists seeing red over ‘socialism is like AIDS’ remark

August 27, 2012August 27, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

A strange saga in the past few days has re-exposed rifts inBulgaria’s opposition socialist party – and exposed the fact

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Bulgaria News 

Booze cruising for a bruising at Bulgarian seaside resort

August 27, 2012August 27, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Foreign tourists in Bulgaria’s popular Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach are imbibing alcohol at astonishingly cheap prices – or

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Firefighters battle blazes in Bulgaria’s Rila Mountain, Serbia, Macedonia and Greece

August 27, 2012August 27, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Firefighters in Bulgaria continued their struggle against the blaze in the Beli Bor area of the Rila Mountain on August

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria cracks down on dodgy driving schools

August 27, 2012August 26, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian authorities have begun investigating misleading advertisements by driving schools that offer fees of 200 to 300 leva (about 100

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