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Month: February 2018

Business 

Sofia Startup Expo 2018 to take place for the first time in Bulgaria

February 23, 2018March 16, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The first Bulgarian exposition for startup innovative companies Sofia Startup Expo 2018 (SSE) will take place in Sofia in March

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s ruling parties: ‘Coalition is stable’

February 23, 2018February 23, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria’s governing coalition is stable, the partners in the ruling majority said after talks in the Parliament building on February

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Bulgaria 

Statue to be unveiled on March 1 as part of planned Historic Park near Bulgaria’s Varna

February 23, 2018February 23, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Varna

A statue, billed as the largest bronze sculpture on the Balkan peninsula, is to be unveiled on March 1 2018

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Europe 

Removal of monuments in Skopje, whose turn is next?

February 23, 2018February 23, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Macedonia

After the removal of one of the monuments of Skopje 2014 project, the government and other institutions in the Republic

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria had lowest minimum wage in EU as at January 2018 – Eurostat

February 23, 2018February 24, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat

In January 2018, Bulgaria had the lowest gross minimum wage, meaning before taxes are deducted, across the EU, of 261

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Bulgaria 

Initiative ‘fight hate with a flower’ launched in Sofia

February 23, 2018February 23, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

As part of the campaign under the patronage of Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova “Let’s clean away hatred”, Bulgaria’s National Co-ordinator

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Cyprus to feature in Bulgaria EU Presidency’s ‘Music of Europe’ concert series on March 5

February 23, 2018February 23, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria EU presidency, Cyprus

Works by Cypriot composer Solon Michaelides will be featured on March 5 2018 as part of the “Music of Europe”

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Business 

CEZ board approves sale of Bulgarian assets

February 22, 2018February 23, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Czech state-owned utility CEZ said on February 22 that its supervisory board has approved the sale of the group’s assets

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian prosecutors press charges against former finance minister

February 22, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on February 22 that it has pressed charges against former finance minister Stoyan Alexandrov, who is

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