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Day: May 9, 2018

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s CCB trial opens with reading of indictment running to thousands of pages

May 9, 2018May 13, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

The landmark trial on the collapse of the Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB) in Bulgaria, in which defence attorneys had already

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria names members of commission on historical and educational issues with Macedonia

May 9, 2018May 10, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Macedonia

Bulgaria’s government announced on May 9 the names of the members of a joint commission on historical and educational issues

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria issues Greece travel advisory ahead of summer tourist season

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

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry issued a travel advisory on May 9 with a number of recommendations for Bulgarian holiday-makers planning to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government postpones decision on air and land military modernisation projects

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

Although Bulgaria’s Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov had said that the Cabinet would discuss projects to acquire fighter jets and armoured

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Bulgaria 

Second World War aircraft found near Bulgarian village believed to be Messerschmitt

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

An aircraft found near the village of Maritsa in the Samokov region near the resort of Borovets is believed to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM: China committed to helping find Boyan Petrov, mountaineer missing in Himalayas

May 9, 2018May 11, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian government is in constant contact with the Chinese authorities about a rescue helicopter being provided to help find

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Business 

Bulgarian consumer confidence increased between January and April 2018 – statistics institute

May 9, 2018May 11, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

Consumer confidence among Bulgarians was 1.8 percentage points higher in April 2018 than in January, the National Statistical Institute (NSI)

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Bulgaria 

Deputy PM Simeonov: Rescue of Bulgarian Jews from Holocaust possible ‘because of Bulgarian government and Boris III’

May 9, 2018May 11, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

The rescue of Bulgarian Jews from the Holocaust had been possible only because of the “categorical position” of the Bulgarian

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Europe 

EU slams Trump decision to dump Iran nuclear deal

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

The European Union regrets the May 8 statement by US president Donald Trump on the nuclear deal with Iran (Joint

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