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Day: May 21, 2015

Bulgaria 

Controversies hit local government in Bulgaria six months ahead of elections

May 21, 2015May 10, 2024 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Six months ahead of mayoral and municipal elections in Bulgaria, a series of scandals has begun at local government level,

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Business 

Bulgaria external storage market set for strong growth – IDC

May 21, 2015May 21, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s total storage hardware market grew 6.8 per cent in 2014, reaching $14.1 million in vendor revenue, as capacity increased

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian socialists abandon bid to challenge government’s 8B euro debt plan

May 21, 2015May 21, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s largest parliamentary opposition party, the socialists, said on May 21 that they would not challenge the government’s three-year eight-billion

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Business 

Bulgarian President welcomes ‘new wave’ of German investments

May 21, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has welcomed a “new wave” of German investments in the country, saying that the result of

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Bulgarian dig at motorway construction site finds Roman villa from time of Constantine the Great

May 21, 2015May 21, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Bulgarian archaeologists working at a site near the village of Mursalevo along the route of the construction of the Struma

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Europe 

Europe locked in migrant quota dispute

May 21, 2015May 21, 2015 Lisa Bryant of VOANews

European Union countries are locked in an increasingly bitter battle over proposals to set quotas for accepting asylum seekers and

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Bulgaria 

World Bank team: Bulgaria could turn the tide to faster, sustainable growth

May 21, 2015May 25, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff World Bank

A World Bank team held talks with Bulgarian cabinet ministers on May 20 on how the international financial institution can

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s security agency, police detain 150 illegal immigrants in Sofia

May 21, 2015May 22, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security (SANS), working with police and the Migration Directorate, detained more than 150 illegal immigrants,

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