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Month: January 2018

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s GERB to seek Constitutional Court ruling on Istanbul Convention

January 31, 2018February 1, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s party GERB, the senior partner in the governing coalition, plans to seek a ruling from

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Business 

Unemployment in Bulgaria was 6.1% in December 2017, again below EU average – Eurostat

January 31, 2018February 1, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Eurostat, macroeconomic indicators

Unemployment in Bulgarian in December 2017 was 6.1 per cent, down from 6.7 per cent in December 2016 and again

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Constitutional Court rules Parliament cannot reject an MP’s resignation

January 30, 2018January 31, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court ruled on January 30 that the National Assembly acted unconstitutionally in rejecting the resignation of MP Delyan

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Bulgaria 

Flu epidemics declared, closing schools in Varna, Rousse and four other Bulgarian districts

January 30, 2018January 31, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas, Rousse, Sofia, Varna

Schools have been closed in Bulgaria’s largest Black Sea city Varna, Rousse on the Danube, and in four other districts

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Europe 

Romania: Viorica Dancila voted in as first woman prime minister

January 29, 2018January 31, 2018 Deutsche Welle Romania

Romania’s parliament on January 29 voted in European Parliament lawmaker Viorica Dancila as the country’s first woman prime minister. The left-wing government

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Business 

Poll sees improved business climate in Bulgaria in January 2018

January 29, 2018January 31, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

A regular monthly poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) has found the total business climate indicator increased in January

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Bulgaria 

Controversy as two candidates shortlisted to be new Bulgarian Orthodox Church Vidin Metropolitan

January 28, 2018January 31, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Controversy attended the January 28 diocesan election to shortlist two candidates to be the next Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan of

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Europe 

Pro-Russian Milos Zeman wins Czech Republic presidential runoff

January 27, 2018January 29, 2018 Deutsche Welle Czech Republic

Czech Republic President Milos Zeman on Saturday won the country’s presidential election runoff, official results showed. The national statistics office CSU said

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Bulgaria World 

International Holocaust Remembrance Day: ‘The best antidote to anti-Semitism and hate speech is knowledge’

January 27, 2018January 28, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Jews

Calling on the world to “stand together against the normalisation of hate,” United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres emphasised in his

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