Thousands of Greeks join protest rally over ‘Macedonia’ name issue
Thousands of protesters from across Greece gathered at Syntagma square outside the parliament building on the afternoon of February 4
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Month: February 2018
Bulgarian Orthodox Church elects Bishop Daniil as new Metropolitan of Vidin
By a vote of 11 to two on February 4, the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body, the Holy Synod, elected
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Communist monuments in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv vandalised
Communist monuments in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv were vandalised overnight, the day after the country observed the annual day in
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Bulgaria’s Black Sea city Varna introducing ‘Blue Zone’ paid parking system in May 2018
Motorists in Bulgaria’s largest Black Sea city Varna will pay one lev (about 51 euro cents) an hour to park
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Bulgaria’s nationalist coalition falls out over ‘gay marriage’ referendum proposal
Krassimir Karakachanov’s idea for Bulgaria to hold a referendum “against gay marriage and gender concepts in Bulgaria’s education and legal
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Bulgarian President Radev vetoes amendments on farmland use
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev vetoed on February 2 a bill meant to modify the rules for changing the status of
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Bulgaria ends 2017 with 845.2M leva Budget surplus
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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EU provides close to half a billion euro for railway modernisation in western Bulgaria
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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Political polarisation as Bulgaria commemorates victims of communism
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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