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Month: January 2018

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM in talks with Skopje, Belgrade counterparts on developing transport infrastructure

January 23, 2018January 25, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia, Serbia

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov held conversations with his counterparts in Skopje, Zoran Zaev, and in Belgrade, Ana Brnabić, on

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Bulgaria 

OneCoin: Reports of money laundering ‘untrue and misleading’

January 23, 2018January 24, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Media reports about a crime group using OneCoin are “untrue and misleading to the public,” the OneCoin company said in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM snubs motion of no confidence debate in Parliament

January 23, 2018January 23, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s absence from the National Assembly on January 23, when the House held a special sitting to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian former intelligence chief handed second sentence on embezzlement charges

January 23, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s prosecutor’s general office said on January 23 that it won a second trial against the former head of the

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Bulgaria 

Another false start in Bulgaria’s Corporate Commercial Bank embezzlement trial

January 23, 2018January 24, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Bulgaria’s special criminal court was unable on January 23 to start proceedings in the trial related to the collapse of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM and Turkish ambassador: Dialogue between EU and Ankara must be normalised

January 23, 2018January 24, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria EU presidency, Turkey

The dialogue between European Union member states and Turkey must be normalised in the context of understanding and prudent decisions,

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Sport 

Dimitrov out of Australian Open after loss to Britain’s Edmund

January 23, 2018January 24, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Grigor Dimitrov

Grigor Dimitrov exited the Australian Open after a 4-6, 6-3, 3-6, 4-6 quarterfinal loss to Britain’s Kyle Edmund in yet

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Business 

IMF hikes global growth outlook on US tax cut boost

January 23, 2018January 21, 2019 Deutsche Welle IMF

In the latest update to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook (WEO), nearly all the forecasts for 2018 and 2019 were

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria and Greece step up exchange of information to combat tax evasion

January 22, 2018January 23, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

The head of the revenue agencies of Bulgaria and Greece have held talks on continuing and deepening co-operation on exchanging

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