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Month: August 2017

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria utility regulator closes proceedings to repeal EVN’s power distribution licence

August 8, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (EWRC) has said that it has ended the proceedings to withdraw the operating licence

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian consumer confidence rose in July 2017 – statistics institute

August 7, 2017August 7, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency

Consumer confidence among Bulgarians was 1.6 percentage points higher in July 2017 than in April, a regular three-monthly survey by

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s construction ban on Cape Kaliakra incites heated protests, recriminations

August 7, 2017August 9, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

A blanket ban on new construction in north-western Bulgaria, in areas around Cape Kaliakra on the Black Sea coast, has

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Bulgaria 

29 lodge civil court action against company over gas tank train blast in Bulgaria’s Hitrino

August 6, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Twenty-nine people have lodged civil claims in court against the Bulmarket company for compensation of a total of more than

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Bulgaria 

In Sarajevo, Bulgarian FM reiterates support for EU accession of Western Balkans

August 4, 2017August 4, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Bosnia and Herzegovina

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva has told her counterpart in Sarajevo that Bulgaria supports the accession of Western Balkans countries

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Bulgaria 

Partial lunar eclipse to be visible from Bulgaria at moonrise on August 7

August 4, 2017August 8, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff final frontier

As North America prepares for its first full solar eclipse in decades later this month, the consolation prize for sky

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian court orders nationalist politician returned to custody on people-trafficking charges

August 4, 2017August 7, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Valeri Simeonov

The Regional Court in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv has ordered Anelia Veleva, the former Kostinbrod co-ordinator of the nationalist National

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Deputy PM promises stepped-up police presence in Roma area of Plovdiv

August 3, 2017August 5, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv, Valeri Simeonov

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov, who is one of the co-leaders of the nationalist United Patriots minority partner in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian court acquits ‘migrant hunter’ over detention of Afghan migrants

August 3, 2017August 4, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis

The Regional Court in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Bourgas acquitted Petar “The Feather” Nizamov on August 3 of

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