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Month: July 2018

Bulgaria 

Government agrees to 100M leva purchase of new passenger trains for Bulgarian state railways

July 18, 2018July 23, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

Bulgaria’s government agreed on July 18 to an investment project that envisages spending 100 million leva (about 51 million euro)

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM axes officials over rinderpest outbreak as farmers protest in Sofia

July 18, 2018July 23, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov dismissed Deputy Agriculture Minister Tsvetan Dimitrov and other officials on July 18 over the handling

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Business 

EU regulator hits Google with a record $5 billion fine

July 18, 2018July 19, 2018 VOANews

The European Union’s antitrust regulator fined Google a record $5 billion on July 18 for illegally exploiting the powerful market

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government grants permission for Dutch research vessel’s climate change research in Black Sea

July 18, 2018July 19, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

The government in Sofia said on July 18 that it had given permission to the Dutch research vessel RV Pelagia

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Europe 

EU-Japan free trade agreement defies protectionism

July 17, 2018 Deutsche Welle

The European Union and Japan have signed a trade deal that promises to eliminate 99 percent of tariffs that cost

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Bulgaria 

Work on archaeological park at Sofia’s Slatina site to start in autumn 2019 – mayor

July 17, 2018July 19, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Sofia

Work on developing an archaeoligical park and visitor centre at the Slatina site in Bulgarian capital city Sofia is to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria annual CPI records 3.2% inflation in June

July 16, 2018August 14, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded 3.2 per cent inflation in June, up 0.6 percentage points compared to a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria announces measures following ovine rinderpest outbreak

July 16, 2018July 18, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s operations headquarters set up to deal with the outbreak of ovine rinderpest said on July 16 that payment of

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Bulgaria 

Ten pimps held in international bust of forced prostitution ring luring Bulgarian women to France

July 16, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

A joint action day in France, Bulgaria and Germany on July 3 resulted in searches of more than 20 locations

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