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Month: June 2016

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry: Security at Sunny Beach ‘good’, to be stepped up

June 10, 2016June 13, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

In the wake of the shootout at Bulgaria’s Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach that left one man dead and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian prosecutors to press new charges against ex-CCB banker Vassilev

June 9, 2016June 13, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

The investigation against former Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB) majority shareholder Tsvetan Vassilev found evidence of an organised crime group operating

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Bulgaria 

Hyatt Regency hotel to open in Sofia in 2018

June 9, 2016June 13, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, tourism

The first Hyatt-branded hotel in Bulgaria will open in the country’s capital city of Sofia in 2018, following an agreement

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs approve 600M euro government guarantees for EBRD, World Bank loans

June 9, 2016June 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Parliament ratified on June 9 two separate bills to extend government guarantees on loan agreements signed by the state

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM slams cops over Sunny Beach gangster shooting

June 9, 2016June 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has sharply criticised police over their handling of the aftermath of a fatal shoot-out involving

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Business 

Bulgaria reports drop in exports in January – April 2016

June 9, 2016June 10, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s exports in January to April 2016 were three per cent lower than in the same period of 2015, the

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Bulgaria 

Serbian court rules to extradite Bulgarian ex-banker – report

June 9, 2016June 9, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

A court in Serbian capital Belgrade has ruled to extradite Tsvetan Vassilev, former majority shareholder in insolvent Corporate Commercial Bank

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Bulgaria 

MP quits Bulgaria’s nationalist Patriotic Front group

June 9, 2016June 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian MP Polina Karastoyanova has resigned from the nationalist Patriotic Front parliamentary group after being ousted by the group from

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Europe 

Athens confident euro working group will green-light funds disbursement

June 9, 2016June 9, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency euro zone, Greece

Euro zone deputy finance ministers – the so-called Euro Working Group – will convene in Helsinki on June 9 to

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