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Day: February 1, 2018

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria ends 2017 with 845.2M leva Budget surplus

February 1, 2018February 2, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said that the consolidated Budget surplus for the full year 2017 was 845.2 million leva, or 0.8

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Bulgaria 

EU provides close to half a billion euro for railway modernisation in western Bulgaria

February 1, 2018February 2, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

About 471.5 million euro from the Cohesion Fund is invested in the development of the railway section between the towns of Elin

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Bulgaria 

Political polarisation as Bulgaria commemorates victims of communism

February 1, 2018February 2, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgaria’s customary political polarisation was in evidence on February 1, the day decreed in 2011 to commemorate the many thousands

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Europe 

Asylum applications in EU+ countries in 2017 were 43% lower than in 2016 – EASO

February 1, 2018February 2, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Refugees

The number of asylum applications in EU+ countries – meaning the 28 member states of the bloc plus Norway and

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Bulgaria 

42 dead in road accidents in Bulgaria in first month of 2018

February 1, 2018February 2, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

A total of 42 people died in road accidents in the first month of 2018 in Bulgaria, the EU country

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