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Month: October 2016

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Bulgaria’s 2016 elections: Central Election Commission will decide on ‘media packages’ for news sites

October 13, 2016October 15, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016, Media

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission will allow the awarding of “media packages” for election advertising on some news websites, depending on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2016 presidential elections: Controversy deepens over ‘I don’t support anyone’ option

October 13, 2016October 15, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016

Controversy over the inclusion on the ballot paper for Bulgaria’s November 2016 presidential elections of the option to vote “I

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Bulgaria 

Hungary charges Bulgarians, Afghans with murder over migrant death lorry

October 13, 2016October 14, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Hungary

Hungary has laid criminal charges of murder and aggravated migrant smuggling against 11 people, mostly Bulgarians and Afghan nationals in

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Europe 

Turkey questions historical treaty defining regional borders

October 13, 2016 Dorian Jones of VOANews Turkey

A dispute continues to deepen between Ankara and Baghdad over the presence of Turkish soldiers near the Iraqi city of

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s 2016 elections: Shadow of the Bulgarian Communist Party

October 12, 2016October 15, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2016

Tsetska Tsacheva, nominated by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party as its candidate in the country’s November 2016

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Parliament votes month-long recess for presidential elections

October 12, 2016October 12, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgaria elections 2016

Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted on October 12 to go into recess for close to a month because of the November

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria annual CPI records 0.6% deflation in September 2016

October 12, 2016October 13, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) shrank by 0.6 per cent year-on-year in September 2016, while monthly data showed 0.5 per

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Business 

Bulgarian economy ministry proposes scrapping special long weekends and ‘working’ Saturdays

October 11, 2016October 11, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Labour and Social Policy is drafting changes to the Labour Code that would see the scrapping of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2016 elections: Controversy over limitations on polling stations abroad

October 11, 2016October 13, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

As the deadline loomed for Bulgarians abroad to apply to register to vote in the country’s November 2016 presidential elections

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