Bulgaria deficit increase weakens a key rating strength, Fitch says
Bulgaria’s proposed budget revisions highlight how the summer’s bank runs, a slowing economy and over-spending are weakening its public finances,
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Day: October 7, 2014
IMF: Global growth disappoints, pace of recovery uneven and country-specific
A weak and uneven global economic recovery continues, but reflecting different evolutions across various countries and regions, says the IMF’s
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Ukraine wants new IMF bailout as war squeezes economy
As the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank gets underway in Washington, Ukraine wants to
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Bulgarians and preferential voting: shift happens
Bulgarians appear to have taken to preferential voting with a passion, with more than third who voted in the country’s
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Insurance companies, investment, pension funds could lose 103M leva if Corpbank, Victoria go bankrupt – financial supervisor
Insurance companies, investment and pension funds could lose at least 103 million leva if Bulgaria’s Corporate Commercial Bank and its
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NATO chief: Rapid reaction force in Eastern Europe does not violate deal with Russia
NATO’s new chief, Jens Stoltenberg, says plans for a new rapid reaction force in Eastern Europe do not break a
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Borissov ‘ready to offer cabinet posts to parties in return for responsibility for policies’
Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party, winner of the most votes in the October 5 elections, intends beginning talks with all
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Mistake if youths do not know the truth about communism, fascism and the transition – Plevneliev
It would be a strategic mistake if Bulgaria’s youth was not enabled to know the truth about communism, fascism and the
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Rival ultra-nationalists together to have 30 seats in Bulgaria’s Parliament
Bulgaria’s ultra-nationalist coalition the Patriotic Front will have 19 seats in Bulgaria’s newly-elected Parliament and its far-right Ataka rivals 11
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