Biden to visit Turkey amid tensions over cleric’s extradition
Vice President Joe Biden will visit Turkey later this month, the White House announced Friday. His visit scheduled for August
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Month: August 2016
Bulgaria foils further attempts at illegally crossing its borders with Serbia, Turkey
Over the past day, Bulgarian Border Police detained 87 foreign nationals who had attempted to cross the Bulgarian-Serbian border illegally,
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Two Bulgarian banks required to increase capital buffers after stress test
Bulgaria’s central bank published on August 13 the results of the asset quality review and stress test of the country’s
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Controversy continues over Bulgaria’s deportation of Büyük to 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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UN rights chief sees ‘worrying signs’ in Bulgaria’s detentions of migrants
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 records 0.7% economic growth in Q2 2016 – flash estimate
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 annual CPI records 0.2% deflation in July
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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Bulgarian banks pass asset quality review, central bank governor says
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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Poland: Select provisions of new Constitutional Tribunal law unconstitutional
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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