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Day: March 20, 2015

Business 

InvestBulgaria Agency: The art of being there

March 20, 2015May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Money always finds its way to good ideas, and Bulgaria is a country with good and interesting ideas, says Stamen

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Bulgaria 

Asylum applications in Bulgaria increase, but still less than EU average

March 20, 2015March 24, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

The number of asylum applications in Bulgaria in 2014 was eight per cent higher than in 2013, but the increase

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria backtracks on ban on land ownership by non-EU companies

March 20, 2015March 24, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian legislators have taken the first step to retreating from a controversial law approved in February 2015 providing for huge

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Business 

Bulgaria sells 3.1B euro in bonds on March 19 – updated

March 20, 2015March 23, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria has sold 3.1 billion euro worth of bonds on foreign markets, the largest amount ever borrowed by the country

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Excavations of Plovdiv’s Great Basilica to begin within weeks

March 20, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Plovdiv

Excavations of Plovdiv’s Great Basilica, the largest early Christian church found in Bulgaria and among the largest in South Eastern

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Bulgaria 

Sofia to Athens: Implement a drastic austerity programme

March 20, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said Thursday that “the time has come” for Greece to take his country as an example,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM: We will insist on financial support for the gas interconnector with Greece

March 20, 2015March 23, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Greece

Bulgaria will insist that the gas hub be included in the plans of the European Commission on financial support for

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Bulgaria 

Israel to assist Bulgaria’s agriculture sector, food exports

March 20, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Israel is to assist Bulgaria in the revival of its agricultural sector and is to seek the best Bulgarian food

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Europe 

Romanian anti-corruption prosecutors seek green light to arrest former finance minister

March 20, 2015March 20, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Romania’s Anti-Corruption Department (DNA) has sent the country’s prosecutor-general a report in which it asks the top magistrate to notify

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