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Month: February 2018

Europe 

Thousands of Greeks join protest rally over ‘Macedonia’ name issue

February 5, 2018February 6, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Thousands of protesters from across Greece gathered at Syntagma square outside the parliament building on the afternoon of February 4

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church elects Bishop Daniil as new Metropolitan of Vidin

February 4, 2018February 6, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church, 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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Bulgaria 

Communist monuments in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv vandalised

February 3, 2018February 5, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

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 

Bulgaria’s Black Sea city Varna introducing ‘Blue Zone’ paid parking system in May 2018

February 3, 2018February 5, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Varna

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 

Bulgaria’s nationalist coalition falls out over ‘gay marriage’ referendum proposal

February 2, 2018February 4, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Valeri Simeonov

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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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev vetoes amendments on farmland use

February 2, 2018February 3, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

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 

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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