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Month: March 2017

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Bulgarian Defence Ministry receives three proposals to supply fighter jets to Air Force

March 14, 2017January 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

Bulgaria’s Defence Ministry has received three proposals to supply the country’s Air Force with fighter jets, the ministry said. The

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria annual CPI records 1.7% inflation in February

March 14, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded 1.7 per cent inflation in February, but prices were flat on a monthly

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Bulgaria 

Deputy PM: Cabinet has not discussed names of possible candidate European Commissioner

March 14, 2017March 14, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

Bulgaria’s caretaker government has not discussed specific names of possible nominees to be the country’s next European Commissioner, Deputy Prime

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Europe 

EU court allows headscarf constraints at workplace

March 14, 2017 Deutsche Welle

Private firms are justified on certain grounds to bar a female employee from wearing a headscarf or veil, according to

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Business 

Bulgarian exports to other EU countries up 7.2 per cent in 2016, trade balance negative

March 14, 2017March 15, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s exports to other European Union countries in 2016 were 7.2 per cent higher than in 2015, but the country’s

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Bulgaria 

EC invites Eastern European member states to weigh in on Gazprom anti-trust settlement proposal

March 13, 2017March 15, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff energy

The European Commission said on March 13 that it has asked eight Eastern European member states for comments on the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria elections 2017: From populism to polling stations to poverty and an epilepsy epidemic

March 13, 2017March 15, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgaria elections 2017

At the beginning of the final two weeks ahead of Bulgaria’s March 2017 parliamentary elections, politicians continued criss-crossing the country

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Bulgaria 

Thousands of migrants ‘disappear’ from Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry, refugee agency centres – report

March 13, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis

Thousands of migrants have “disappeared” from Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry distribution centres and State Agency for Refugees camps in the past

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Bulgaria names Kristian Kostov as its contestant in Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv

March 13, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Eurovision

Bulgarian young pop star and X Factor finalist Kristian Kostov is to represent the country at the Eurovision song contest

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