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Day: May 7, 2018

Bulgaria 

Sofia Science Festival 2018: Twenty events in English

May 7, 2018May 13, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Science Festival

The 2018 Sofia Science Festival, from May 10 to 13, features 20 events in English – out of a record-setting

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Bulgaria 

Energy: Bulgaria faced with its Achilles heel

May 7, 2018May 7, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency energy

Bulgaria should give priority to gas, while developing its 2030 energy strategy, according to a study co-sponsored by the Shell

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian mountaineer Boyan Petrov missing in Himalayas for several days

May 7, 2018May 9, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian mountaineer Boyan Petrov, a veteran climber who has summited 10 peaks of more than 8000m altitude, has been missing

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Business 

UniCredit to lend 340M euro more to Eastern European SMEs

May 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

UniCredit has signed an agreement with the European Investment Fund to provide an additional 340 million euro in financing to

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Europe 

Snapchat latest IT platform to join EU Code of Conduct to fight illegal hate speech online

May 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Snap.Inc announced on May 7 2018 that it is joining the EU’s Code of Conduct on countering illegal online hate

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian and Greek PMs: Sofia May 2018 summit ‘will provide energy for development of region’

May 7, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian EU Presidency, Greece

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has confirmed his participation in the summit to be held in Bulgarian capital city Sofia

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