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Greek bank Eurobank Ergasias said on November 7 that it reached an agreement to buy the Bulgarian subsidiary of fellow Greek lender Piraeus Bank for 75 million euro. The acquisition […]
Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov’s National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria party is seeking a firm to clean off the eggs that have bee ...
Bulgaria’s National Assembly passed the 2019 Budget Act at first reading on November 7, with 115 MPs in favour and 85 opposed. A day earlier, Parlia ...
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party backs German Manfred Weber to be the next head of the European Commission, GER ...
Bulgaria’s Government approved on November 7 a draft framework for the selection process of a strategic investor for the Belene nuclear power plant, with Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova indicating the […]
Bulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on November 7 that it did not have any legal ground to appeal in court the Cabinet tender for the concession of Sofia Airport. The request […]
The European Commission said on November 7 that it had decided to register a European Citizens’ Initiative entitled “Mandatory food labelling Non-Vegetarian/Vegetarian/Vegan”. The initiative says: “Vegetarians and ve ...
A poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) has found that consumer confidence dropped by 3.2 percentage points in October 2018 compared with three months earlier. The drop was caused […]
At the invitation of the UK, Bulgaria will take part in an international initiative to mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, with bells tolling in […]
