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Month: April 2017

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria annual CPI records 1.9% inflation in March

April 12, 2017April 12, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded 1.9 per cent inflation in March, despite shrinking by 0.5 per cent compared

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Bulgaria 

Handing MiG-29 engine overhaul contract to Poland was better deal for Bulgaria than with Russia, Nenchev trial told

April 12, 2017January 9, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Poland, Russia

The conditions offered by Poland to overhaul the engines of the Bulgarian Air Force’s MiG-29 fighter jets were better than

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s population decreased again in 2016 – National Statistical Institute

April 12, 2017April 15, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency

The trend of Bulgaria’s population decreasing continued again in 2016, with a fall of 0.7 per cent compared with 2015,

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Bulgaria 

More than half of emigrants from Bulgaria in 2016 were aged 20 to 39 – statistics institute

April 12, 2017April 13, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

A total of 30 570 people registered a change of address to a destination outside Bulgaria in 2016, according to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s marriage rate is down while the divorce rate is up – official

April 12, 2017April 13, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

The rate of marriage in Bulgaria is in decline while the divorce rate has risen, the country’s National Statistical Institute

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Bulgaria 

GERB negotiator: New Bulgarian government will be formed after Easter

April 12, 2017April 13, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017

Delyan Dobrev, a negotiator for Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party, said on April 12 that Bulgaria would have a new

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Perspectives 

Bulgarian President Radev special address: what he said and what he did not

April 11, 2017April 13, 2017 Alex Bivol Roumen Radev

Having found himself at the centre of the controversy after the publication, last week, of proposed amendments on curtailing the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Ninova refuses Borissov’s offer of Parliament Speaker’s chair

April 11, 2017April 12, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Kornelia Ninova

Bulgarian centre-right GERB party leader Boiko Borissov, winner of the March 27 parliamentary elections, has offered Bulgarian Socialist Party leader

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian coalition government talks: GERB, United Patriots reach agreement on pensions

April 11, 2017April 12, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections

Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party and the nationalist United Patriots have reached agreement on policy on pensions, in the course

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