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Month: August 2018

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria anti-trust watchdog fines Mareshki-linked fuel retailer for unfair practices

August 3, 2018August 3, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition said on August 3 that it filed petrol station operator Tradenet Varna 175 400

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov opens looping section on gas link to Turkey

August 3, 2018August 3, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, energy, Turkey

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov, accompanied by Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova and her Turkish counterpart Fatih Dönmez, opened a new

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Navy puts into service four boats donated by US

August 3, 2018August 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s coastline will be patrolled as of August 3 using four boats donated by the United States to the Bulgarian

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Business 

Production of beer in Bulgaria fell 4% in 2017 – Eurostat

August 3, 2018August 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

The production of beer in Bulgaria in 2017 was four per cent lower than in 2016, EU statistics agency Eurostat

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Europe 

European Medicines Agency issues update on recalled valsartan medicines

August 2, 2018August 2, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) issued an update on August 2 on its review of recalled valsartan medicines, with a

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Business 

France’s Societe Generale to sell Bulgarian unit to Hungary’s OTP Bank

August 2, 2018August 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

French banking group Societe Generale said on August 2 that it has agreed the sale of its Bulgarian subsidiary, Societe

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian and Macedonian PMs hold second joint commemoration of Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising

August 2, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Macedonia

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and his counterpart from the Republic of Macedonia Zoran Zaev held their second joint commemoration

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Bulgaria 

Earthquake of 4.1 on Richter scale in southern Bulgaria

August 2, 2018August 2, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

An earthquake measuring 4.1 on the Richter scale struck at 5.17pm on August 2 in southern Bulgaria, 55km south-east of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s summer 2018 season: Close to 1000 police deployed to resorts

August 2, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Close to 1000 additional police officers from all over Bulgaria have been deployed to the country’s Black Sea coastal resorts

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