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Month: July 2014

Business 

Bulgaria annual deflation at 1.9% in June

July 15, 2014July 17, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s consumer price index shrank again in June, by 0.4 per cent, but the annual deflation figure at the end

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Business 

FDI in Bulgaria in January-May was 302.6M euro

July 15, 2014July 17, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first five months of 2014 stood at 302.6 million euro, the equivalent of

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Bulgaria 

Costs mount from Bulgaria’s June floods, Sofia July hailstorm

July 15, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, Varna, Varna floods, Veliko Turnovo

Sofia municipality has put in a claim for a million leva (about 500 000 euro) for cleaning critical infrastructure after

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Bulgaria 

Barekov had highest income among Bulgaria’s new MEPs – declarations

July 15, 2014July 15, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European Parliament

Nikolai Barekov, the former talk show host who leads the populist Bulgaria Without Censorship (BWC) party, is shown by his

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Bulgaria 

Former Ukrainian president Yanukovych owns 20ha of land on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast – report

July 15, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Ukraine

Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych owns a total of 20 hectares of land in popular seaside resort areas along Bulgaria’s

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Europe 

EU must help fund Balkan flood relief effort, European Parliament President Schulz says

July 14, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Varna floods

The collective solidarity that inspired cross-border rescue and relief efforts in the aftermath of the May 2014 floods in Bosnia-Herzegovina,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to join EU banking union in wake of CCB collapse

July 14, 2014July 31, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria’s political parties agreed on July 14 to launch proceedings to join the EU’s single supervisory mechanism of the European

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv court orders district mayor removed from office pending trial on corruption allegations

July 14, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Plovdiv Regional Court on July 14 order central district mayor Raina Petrova removed from office pending her trial in connection

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Europe 

Greek government to sell 1500 properties belonging to tax evaders

July 14, 2014July 14, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek tax authorities are preparing to sell, through an online auction, 1500 villas in tourist resorts in the country, such as

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