Bulgaria think-tank presents leaner Budget alternative
A week after the Cabinet approved the 2013 Budget bill, Sofia-based think-tank Institute for Market Economics (IME) presented on October
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Bulgaria’s Jeleva misses out on EPP vice president seat
Roumyana Zheleva, the former foreign minister and failed European Commissioner-designate, who was surprisingly nominated for a second term as vice
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Guns, not butter: Bulgarian police bust illegal firearms workshop at flour mill
When Bulgarian police, acting on a tipoff, raided a bread production house in the town of Assenovgrad, they established that
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Organised crime group arrested in Sofia for 3M leva tax fraud
An investigation by anti-organised crime police and the National Revenue Agency has led to the arrest of a group in
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Bulgarian police arrest four for telephone scams
Bulgarian police have arrested four people who allegedly defrauded people by telephoning them and demanding money to deal with fictitious
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Bulgaria to build temporary refugee shelter near Turkish border following increase in asylum-seekers
Bulgaria, which lately has seen an increase in the number of refugees from Syria and other troubled Middle Eastern and
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Bulgarian President taking high-tech industries in business delegation to Israel
Representatives of high-tech, R&D and agricultural firms will be in a business delegation that Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev is taking
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Polish government proposes 40% tax on shale gas extraction profits
Polish government wants to tax hydrocarbon extraction at an estimated 40% of the eventual gross profits on extraction, PM’s Chancellery
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Georgia’s Saakashvili nominates rival Ivanishvili as PM
Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has nominated his rival, Bidzina Ivanishvili, as prime minister, a post the billionaire businessman was expected
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