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Month: June 2015

Bulgaria 

Hammond briefs Bulgarian foreign minister on EU referendum plan

June 16, 2015June 17, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

UK foreign secretary Philip Hammond briefed his Bulgarian counterpart Daniel Mitov on the main elements of the British agenda for

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Bulgaria 

Borissov on Orlandovtsi: Don’t play with fire and spark ethnic conflict

June 16, 2015June 17, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Tensions in Sofia’s Orlandovtsi area between Bulgarians and Roma people have sparked comments across the political spectrum, with Prime Minister

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Business 

Bulgaria has lowest consumption per capita in EU – Eurostat

June 16, 2015June 17, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Eurostat

Bulgaria ranks lowest among European Union member countries in actual individual consumption (AIC) per capita, a measure of the material

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Business 

Bulgaria’s Q1 2015 employment shows year-on-year increase

June 16, 2015June 16, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat

Employment in Bulgaria in the first quarter of 2015 was 0.8 per cent higher than in Q1 2014, according to

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Bulgaria 

Arrests of ‘provocateurs’ in Orlandovtsi, group tries to storm Roma area in Garmen

June 16, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The parallel dramas over tensions between Bulgarians and Roma have been continuing in two places in Bulgaria, with more than

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Leisure 

Cinema theme of festival of sand sculptures in Rousse

June 15, 2015June 15, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Rousse

Marie Antoinette, Charlie Chaplin, Prometheus and Indiana Jones are among those arrayed on the Bulgarian bank of the Danube in

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Bulgaria 

Plevneliev: US has made no proposal to Bulgaria on deploying military equipment

June 15, 2015June 17, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Rossen Plevneliev

The United States currently has made no proposal to the Bulgarian government about deploying military equipment in the country, President

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Bulgaria 

In Macedonia, Bulgarian Foreign Minister reiterates need for deeper reforms

June 15, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Macedonia

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov held talks with Macedonian president Gjorge Ivanov on June 14, expressing strong concern over the

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Perspectives 

Pattern of provocateurs in clashes in Bulgaria

June 15, 2015June 15, 2015 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

It has long since become a familiar pattern. There is a protest in some far-right cause or a conflict, lately

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