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Day: May 30, 2018

Bulgaria 

Average household electricity prices in EU in H2 2017 were lowest in Bulgaria – Eurostat

May 30, 2018June 1, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency energy

Average household electricity prices in Bulgaria in the second half of 2017 were the lowest in the European Union, at

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Business 

Poll: Business sentiment in Bulgaria in May 2018 highest since 2009

May 30, 2018June 1, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

A regular monthly poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) said that views of the business climate in the country

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Interior Ministry bans photographing Turkish border fence

May 30, 2018June 1, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry has ordered restrictions on access to the area of the fence at the country’s border with Turkey,

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Bulgaria 

Energy issues expected to dominate Putin-Borissov meeting in Moscow

May 30, 2018June 1, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, energy, Russia

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov was expected to lobby for direct Russian natural gas deliveries to the planned Balkan gas

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria high court challenges constitutionality of bank insolvency law amendments

May 30, 2018June 1, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court will rule on whether amendments to Bulgaria’s bank insolvency law, passed by Parliament earlier this year, breach

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Europe 

Zaev: Referendum to be held in late 2018 on ‘Macedonia’ name issue

May 30, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Macedonia

Athens and Skopje are close to resolving the name issue, Prime Minister Zoran Zaev told a May 30 news conference

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Europe 

European Health Commissioner: ‘Tobacco consumption still a threat to our societies’

May 30, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff smoking

Tobacco use remains the single biggest cause of chronic disease and avoidable death in the EU. Statistics on deaths in the EU

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Foreign Ministry condemns shelling attack on Israel from Gaza

May 30, 2018May 31, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Israel

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on May 30 that it strongly condemned the rocket and mortar fire by armed

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Bulgaria 

US State Department report notes assaults, harassment of minority religions in Bulgaria

May 30, 2018May 30, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

Muslims, Mormons, and Jehovah’s Witnesses reported multiple cases of physical assaults, harassment, and threats against members of their communities in

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