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Month: August 2015

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s cabinet adopts EC directive on asylum and refugees

August 5, 2015August 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s government approved on August 5 proposed amendments to the Asylum and Refugees Act, transposing the provisions of a 2013

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria sets new rules for hospitality industry – from hotels to campsites

August 5, 2015August 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria’s cabinet has adopted new regulations on requirements for accommodation, catering and entertainment establishments, saying that obsolete requirements are being

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Business 

Bulgarian cabinet sets January deadline for solutions to ‘problem areas’ facing investors

August 5, 2015August 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s cabinet said on August 5 that it had adopted a report identifying 10 “problem areas” facing investors in Bulgaria

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Business 

Wizz Air to add another Airbus to Sofia base, offer four new destinations

August 5, 2015August 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Low-cost airline Wizz Air said on August 5 that it would add four new flights to the Bulgarian capital city

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Bulgaria 

Motorway from Sofia to Kulata border checkpoint with Greece may be completed earlier than 2023 – minister

August 5, 2015August 5, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

The Struma Motorway that will link Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia to the Kulata checkpoint at the Greek border will be

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Bulgaria 

Controversy over Bulgaria’s new motorway junction

August 5, 2015August 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The days after the August 3 opening of Bulgaria’s new Belokopitovo road junction on the Hemus motorway that links Sofia

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Europe 

Poland awards top rights prize to daughter of Boris Nemtsov

August 5, 2015 VOANews Poland, Russia

Poland has awarded the journalist daughter of slain Russian democracy advocate and opposition leader Boris Nemtsov a $1.1 million human

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Europe 

EU, US applaud Kosovo law on special court

August 4, 2015 VOANews Kosovo

The European Union and the United States have welcomed Kosovo Parliament’s vote Monday to establish a special war crimes court

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Bulgaria 

50 refugees detained after being found in yard of house in Sofia

August 4, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

Police in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia detained more than 50 refugees, most from Syria and Afghanistan, who were found in

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