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Day: December 13, 2016

Business 

Large Bulgarian tour operator files for bankruptcy

December 13, 2016March 9, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency tourism

Bulgarian tour operator Alfatour, described as one of the largest in the country, has filed for insolvency on December 13,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s political crisis: Skepticism greets Reformist Bloc’s attempt to form a new government

December 13, 2016March 9, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria’s Reformist Bloc has a deadline of December 19 to form a new government, but their acceptance of a mandate

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Prosecutor-General: Speeding is leading suspected cause of fatal blast in Hitrino

December 13, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Speeding remains the leading suspected cause of the fatal gas tank transport train explosion in Hitrino, Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov

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Bulgaria 

European Commission approves 20M leva aid for Hitrino’s recovery – Bulgarian agriculture minister

December 13, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Commission approved on December 13 the provision of nearly 20 million lev to deal with damage from the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Muslims and Jews launch fund-raising campaigns to aid Hitrino village

December 13, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

Bulgaria’s Muslim and Jewish communities are launching fund-raising campaigns to assist people in the village of Hitrino, scene of a

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Bulgaria 

New director of Bulgaria’s Harmanli refugee reception centre appointed

December 13, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

Former senior Border Police official Slavcho Yanev has been appointed the new director of the Harmanli refugee reception centre, Bulgaria’s

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Bulgaria 

Bad weather could hamper gas tank clearance operation in Bulgaria’s blast-hit Hitrino village

December 13, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bad weather on December 13 posed a risk to plans to use special cranes to remove gas tanks remaining in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2016 road death total already overtakes 2015 – and is highest since 2010

December 13, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

A total of 682 people have died in accidents on Bulgaria’s roads so far in 2016, according to official Interior

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s political crisis: Reformist Bloc accepts mandate to try to form a government

December 13, 2016March 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria’s centre-right Reformist Bloc accepted a mandate from President Rossen Plevneliev on December 13 to try to form a government.

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