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Day: August 12, 2016

Bulgaria 

Controversy continues over Bulgaria’s deportation of Büyük to Turkey

August 12, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Turkey

Controversy is continuing over Bulgaria’s expulsion to Turkey of Turkish business person Abdullah Büyük, with his lawyers saying that there

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Bulgaria 

UN rights chief sees ‘worrying signs’ in Bulgaria’s detentions of migrants

August 12, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has expressed serious concern that virtually all people entering

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria records 0.7% economic growth in Q2 2016 – flash estimate

August 12, 2016September 2, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s economy posted 0.7 per cent growth in the second quarter of the year, the National Statistical Institute (NSI) said

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria annual CPI records 0.2% deflation in July

August 12, 2016August 15, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s consumer price index (CPI) shrank by 0.2 per cent year-on-year in July 2016, while the monthly data showed one

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian banks pass asset quality review, central bank governor says

August 12, 2016August 15, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

All Bulgarian lenders met minimum regulatory requirements on capital adequacy ratios in the first sector-wide asset quality review concluded earlier

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Europe 

Poland: Select provisions of new Constitutional Tribunal law unconstitutional

August 12, 2016 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal on Thursday ruled that around a dozen of changes passed to the law on the top court

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Europe 

Putin goes on verbal attack against Ukraine, raising fears of war escalation

August 12, 2016 The Kyiv Post Russia, Ukraine

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on August 11 put Ukraine’s armed forces on high alert and “full combat readiness” near Russian-occupied

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