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Month: September 2016

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria January-August 2016 Budget surplus at 3.32B leva, beats forecasts

September 30, 2016November 1, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said on September 30 that the consolidated Budget surplus for the eight months of 2016 was 3.32

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian presidential election campaigns underway as GERB candidate awaited

September 30, 2016October 4, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Never mind the official campaign period beginning on October 6, candidates in Bulgaria’s 2016 presidential election race are already on

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Bulgaria World 

Bulgarian Foreign Minister: Russia has not objected to Georgieva entry into UN race

September 30, 2016October 3, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov said on September 30 that there were no objections from Russia and other countries to

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Business 

Bulgaria unemployment in August 2016 was 7.7%, again below EU average

September 30, 2016September 30, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat, macroeconomic indicators

Unemployment in Bulgaria was 7.7 per cent in August 2016, down from 8.8 per cent in August 2015, and again

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Bulgaria 

Record number of foreign tourists visited Bulgaria in April – August 2016 – Tourism Minister

September 30, 2016September 30, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

More than six million foreign tourists visited Bulgaria in January to August 2016, while the number of foreign visitors to

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Bulgaria 

Four Bulgarian Border Police arrested for corruption

September 30, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis

Four Bulgarian Border Police were arrested for corruption at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint with Turkey on September 30. More

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Bulgaria World 

Hungary supports Bulgaria’s nomination of Georgieva to be UN Secretary-General

September 30, 2016October 3, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Irina Bokova, Kristalina Georgieva

Hungary supports Bulgaria’s nomination of Kristalina Georgieva for the post of United Nations Secretary-General, Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban said

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament approves ban on wearing burqa in public

September 30, 2016October 3, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted on September 30 to approve the second reading of a law banning the wearing of clothing

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Europe 

Orbán: I love this country, and I do not want to see anyone change it under orders from outside

September 30, 2016 The Budapest Times Hungary

The Hungarian Prime Minister offers his views on the European Union’s problems, the US election, exporting democracy, a new cold

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