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Month: September 2017

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian supreme court rules in Kara Dere case: Camping outside official campsites is not illegal

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

Camping outside official campsites is not illegal, Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has ruled in a final judgment on the case

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government grants 100M leva for urgent repairs to national roads

September 7, 2017September 11, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s Cabinet decided on September 7 to allocate 100 million leva (about 51 million euro) for

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Bulgaria 

Fifty asylum-seekers relocated from Greece to Bulgaria in two years – European Commission report

September 7, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Refugees

Bulgaria, which in 2015 pledged to accept 860 asylum-seekers transferred from Greece, has so far accepted 50, a progress report

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Bulgaria 

Dutch MEP’s claims of corruption at Bulgarian-Turkish border rile nationalist MEP

September 7, 2017September 7, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

A Bulgarian nationalist MEP has described allegations by a Dutch counterpart that Bulgarian police extort bribes from EU citizens at

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Cabinet to ask EBRD for its position on Mitrev

September 7, 2017September 8, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Cabinet decided on September 7 to ask the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) for its position on

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Bulgaria 

‘Azerbaijani laundromat’ reports: Bulgarian Prosecutor-General orders probe of Mitrev

September 7, 2017September 8, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has ordered an investigation into Kalin Mitrev, the country’s representative on the board of directors of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria suspends tender for new website for 2018 EU Presidency

September 7, 2017September 8, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s ministry for the country’s presidency of the Council of the European Union in 2018 has suspended a public procurement

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria and Greece sign memorandum on building high-speed railway corridor between Rousse and Thessaloniki

September 6, 2017September 7, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

The transport ministers of Greece and Bulgaria signed on September 6 a memorandum on co-operation on the building of a

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Business 

About 11% of working Bulgarians are self-employed – Eurostat

September 6, 2017September 7, 2017 Independent Balkan News Agency

About 11 per cent of Bulgarians who are working are self-employed, according to figures released on September 6 by EU

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