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Month: February 2018

Business 

Bulgaria’s exports climbed 10.7 per cent in 2017, but trade balance negative

February 9, 2018February 11, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria exported goods worth more than 52.2 billion leva in 2017, an increase of 10.7 per cent compared with 2016,

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Europe 

European Parliament votes for review of daylight saving time

February 8, 2018February 11, 2018 Deutsche Welle European Parliament

European Parliament members voted 384 to 153 in a non-binding resolution on February 8 2018 to urge the European Commission

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Bulgaria 

Sofia to use site of Bulgarian former dictator Dimitrov’s mausoleum for underground art gallery

February 8, 2018February 10, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Sofia

Sofia City Council voted on February 8 to turn the underground spaces at the site where late communist dictator Georgi

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Business 

Delegation to tour markets to seek motor vehicle manufacturer to relocate to Bulgaria

February 8, 2018February 10, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

A Bulgarian delegation including former president Rossen Plevneliev and Economy Minister Emil Karanikolov is to tour markets in Europe and

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Bulgaria 

Online petition calls on Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit to condemn ‘Lukov March’

February 8, 2018February 10, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Sofia

A new online petition is calling on Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit to speak out against the “Lukov March” planned

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Europe 

Zaev: Fresh round of talks on ‘name dispute’ next week

February 7, 2018February 10, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Macedonia

The Republic of Macedonia’s prime minister Zoran Zaev said on February 7 that he does not see the importance of

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Bulgaria 

EC winter forecast nudges down Bulgaria’s 2018 growth estimate

February 7, 2018February 10, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

The European Commission’s winter forecast for the EU economy, released on February 7, estimated that Bulgaria’s economy would continue growing

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Bulgaria 

Number of Bulgarian MEPs to be unchanged in post-Brexit European Parliament

February 7, 2018February 8, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Brexit, European Parliament

Members of the European Parliament voted on February 7 to approve changes to the number of seats in the legislature

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Bulgaria 

EU leaders invite Turkish president Erdoğan to ‘leaders’ meeting’ in Bulgaria’s Varna in March 2018

February 7, 2018February 8, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria EU presidency, Turkey

European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker have written to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inviting

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