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Month: September 2017

Bulgaria 

Dossier Commission names six Bulgarian Jewish community leaders as former State Security people

September 12, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Dossier Commission

Bulgaria’s Dossier Commission, the body charged by law to check people in public life for links to the country’s communist-era

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Business 

Exports from Bulgaria in January – July 2017 up by 13.8 per cent, but trade balance negative

September 12, 2017September 13, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

In the period January – July 2017, the value of all exported goods from Bulgaria amounted to 29 772.4 million

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Europe 

EU Auditors: Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania water quality improved, but significant funds still needed

September 12, 2017September 13, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Hungary, Romania

The quality of drinking water available to consumers in Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania has improved in recent years thanks to

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Business 

Bulgaria’s exports in 2016 were five per cent higher than in 2015 – statistics institute

September 12, 2017September 13, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s exports in 2016 added up to 47.1 billion leva, a figure about five per cent higher than in 2015,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s SJC elects Georgi Cholakov to head high court

September 11, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) elected Georgi Cholakov as the next head of the Supreme Administrative Court (SAC), one of

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Bulgaria 

Corruption claims: Another Bulgarian MEP comes to the defence of country’s border police

September 11, 2017September 11, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Bulgarian member of the European Parliament Emil Radev has become the second to come to the defence of the country’s

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian politicians again divided over anniversary of September 1944 Soviet invasion

September 8, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

In an annual ritual, Bulgaria’s political forces are again deeply divided over the September 9 anniversary of the Soviet invasion

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Bulgaria 

Dutch MEP Piri: 200 complaints against Bulgarian customs officers

September 8, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Responding to a letter from a Bulgarian nationalist MEP who challenged her to prove allegations of abuses by Bulgarian police

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Bulgaria 

Tourism Minister: Bulgaria has no national law regarding nudism

September 8, 2017September 12, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria has no national legal regulation on the practice of nudism, Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova told the National Assembly during

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