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Day: August 17, 2018

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Registry Agency chief resigns after Trade Register fiasco

August 17, 2018August 22, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Justice Ministry said on August 17 that the head of the country’s Registry Agency, Zornitsa Daskalova, has submitted her

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Bulgaria 

FDI in Bulgaria in H1 2018 was 246.2M euro

August 17, 2018August 17, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first half of 2018 stood at 246.2 million euro, the equivalent of 0.5

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Tourism Minister to sue former deputy tourism minister for defamation

August 17, 2018August 17, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency tourism

Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova said on August 17 that she would take court action against former deputy tourism minister

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria has second-lowest meat prices in EU – Eurostat

August 17, 2018August 21, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat

Among European Union countries, Poland has the lowest meat prices, closely followed by Bulgaria, according to figures released on August

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria Traffic Police record more than 28 000 speedsters in six days

August 17, 2018August 21, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Traffic Police say that they registered more than 28 000 cases of motorists breaking the speed limit between August

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s ‘Red Baron’: Looking on Lukanov

August 17, 2018August 21, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

As his body lay in a morgue in Sofia – and he was not spared the final indignity of a

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Europe 

Croatia police accused of abusing refugees

August 17, 2018 Deutsche Welle Croatia, Europe migrant crisis, Refugees

International aid organizations have reported that Croatian police are using violence to push refugees back into neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina. Croatian authorities

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Business 

Cleves announces appointment of new general manager

August 17, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Cleves, the premier owner and operator of residential rental apartments in Sofia, announces that Peter Diakov, General Manager, will leave

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