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Month: August 2018

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria January-July 2018 Budget surplus at 2.02B leva

August 31, 2018September 2, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said on August 31 that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first seven months of 2018 was

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Svoge fatal bus crash: Three Cabinet ministers resign

August 31, 2018September 1, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Three members of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s Cabinet submitted their resignations on August 31 after he told them to

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Bulgaria 

No injuries reported in Cessna business jet runway excursion at Bourgas Airport

August 31, 2018August 31, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Operations at the Bourgas Airport on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast were briefly interrupted on August 31 after a Turkish-registered Cessna

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Europe 

Juncker: European Commission will propose scrapping daylight savings time

August 31, 2018September 1, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said on August 31 that the Commission would comply with the findings of a survey

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Europe 

New EU rules on lightbulbs take effect on September 1 2018

August 31, 2018September 1, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

As of September 1 2018, energy intensive and inefficient halogen lightbulbs will no longer be sold across the European Union,

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Bulgaria 

Unemployment in Bulgaria in July 2018 was 4.8% – Eurostat

August 31, 2018September 1, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Unemployment in Bulgaria in July 2018 was 4.8 per cent, unchanged from June and down from 6.2 per cent in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s rainy June and July 2018 expected to negatively impact grape, wheat harvests

August 30, 2018September 1, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Critically low yields of grapes and poor production quality are expected this year by vine growers throughout Bulgaria, mainly because

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria completes fence at border with Romania against African swine fever

August 30, 2018July 24, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff African Swine Fever, Romania

Construction of a 133km fence at the land border with Romania, to prevent African swine fever entering Bulgaria, has been

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Bulgaria 

Measles: Children under 1 should not be taken to Greece, Romania or Serbia – Bulgarian professor

August 30, 2018August 31, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Romania, Serbia

Children younger than a year should not be taken to Greece, Romania or Serbia, given the increased incidence of measles,

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