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Month: January 2018

Europe 

Serb politician Oliver Ivanovic gunned down in Kosovo

January 16, 2018January 16, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Kosovo, Serbia

The head of the Serb party  “Freedom, Democracy, Justice”, Oliver Ivanovic was shot dead on the morning of January 16

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Business 

Bulgaria signs contract to build road toll system

January 15, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Road Infrastructure Agency signed a contract on January 15 with a consortium led by Austria’s Kapsch TrafficCom to build

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria welcomes Macedonian parliament’s ratification of good-neighbourliness treaty

January 15, 2018January 16, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria EU presidency, Macedonia

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry, in a statement on January 15, welcomed the Macedonian parliament’s ratification of the good-neighbourliness treaty between the

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Business 

Bulgaria has lowest percentage of people using internet banking in the EU – Eurostat

January 15, 2018January 16, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat

Bulgaria has the lowest percentage of adults using internet banking in the European Union, EU statistics agency Eurostat said on

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Sport 

Grigor Dimitrov powers through Australian Open first round

January 15, 2018January 15, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Grigor Dimitrov

Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov, seeded third at the first tennis Grand Slam of the year in Melbourne, took less than 100

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Bulgaria 

North Korea, EU-Japanese relations on agenda as Abe meets Borissov in Sofia

January 14, 2018January 16, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria EU presidency

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU, has categorically condemned North Korea’s

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament overturns presidential veto on anti-corruption law

January 12, 2018January 14, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian MPs voted on January 12 to overturn President Roumen Radev’s veto on the new law that envisions the creation of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria CPI records 2.8 per cent inflation in 2017

January 12, 2018January 14, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded 2.8 per cent inflation in 2017, after December monthly figures showed 0.4 per cent inflation,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian EU Presidency begins with EIB loan of 100M euro under Juncker Plan for agri-pharma firm

January 12, 2018January 13, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria EU presidency

A European Investment Bank loan of 100 million euro to a Bulgarian agri-pharma firm was announced on January 12 after

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