Commentary: 4 factors that led to Turkey’s snap elections
Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has called snap elections at the request of his ultra-nationalist ally, the Nationalist Action Party
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Month: April 2018
Bulgaria’s earnings from foreign tourists rose 11% in December-February – Tourism Ministry
Bulgaria’s revenue from foreign tourists added up to close to 796 million leva (about 407 million euro) in December 2017
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Employment in Bulgaria in 20-64 age bracket had strongest growth in EU in 2017 – Eurostat
The employment rate of people aged 20 to 64 in Bulgaria saw the strongest growth among all EU member states
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2018 Sofia Science Festival programme highlights: From the Antarctic to an astronaut and AI
These are some of the highlights of the programme of the 2018 Sofia Science Festival, being held at Sofia Tech
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Romanian embassy in Israel to be moved to Jerusalem
The US is the US, but what happens when an EU member state decides to act divisively and disobey the
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Bulgarian security council meeting agrees on ‘urgency’ of military modernisation (again)
Bulgaria’s Consultative Council on National Security met for more than four hours on April 19, ending with President Roumen Radev
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FDI in Bulgaria in January-February was 204.9M euro
Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first two months of 2018 stood at 204.9 million euro, the equivalent of
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Murder of Ján Kuciak: European Parliament urges action to protect journalists across the EU
The European Parliament must better protect journalists and whistle-blowers and Slovakia must ensure a thorough, independent and international investigation into
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Bulgaria granted protection status to 1530 Syrian asylum-seekers in 2017 – Eurostat
Ninety per cent of the people granted protection status by Bulgaria in 2017 were from Syria, EU statistics agency Eurostat
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