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Day: November 15, 2018

Europe 

Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia in top five EU net personal transfer recipients in 2017

November 15, 2018November 16, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Croatia, Greece, Romania, Serbia

The three European Union member states in south-eastern Europe were among the largest net recipients of personal transfers in the

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Bulgaria 

Sofia Airport concession tender deadline extended again to January 2019

November 15, 2018November 15, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Airport

The deadline for bids in the tender for the 35-year concession on Sofia Airport has been postponed again, to January

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria insists it did not grant Macedonian former PM Gruevski a passport

November 15, 2018November 16, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Hungary, Macedonia

Bulgaria’s institutions have rushed to insist that the Republic of Macedonia’s former prime minister Nikola Gruevski, a fugitive in Hungary

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Bulgaria 

Governments of Bulgaria and Macedonia to hold joint meeting in early December 2018

November 15, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Macedonia

A joint meeting of the governments of Bulgaria and Macedonia will be held in early December 2018, it emerged on

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Business 

Bulgarian arms plant in deal with Israel’s Aeronautics Group on drone production

November 15, 2018November 15, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Israel

Bulgarian military armaments and equipment firm VMZ Sopot has signed a contract on co-operation and technology transfer with Israeli company

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Business 

Bulgaria central bank approves sale of SG Expressbank to Banka DSK

November 15, 2018November 15, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) said it has given its preliminary approval for the proposed acquisition of a 99.74 per cent

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Bulgaria 

Remains of Second World War US bomber pilot found in Bulgaria, repatriated, after 73 years

November 15, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

The remains of a United States bomber pilot whose aircraft was shot down over Bulgaria during the Second World War

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov holds talks with Serbian, Montenegrin counterparts

November 15, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Montenegro, Serbia

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov held talks with his Montenegrin counterpart Duško Marković and Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabić, the

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Bulgaria 

EU grants 293M euro from Cohesion Fund to upgrade Bulgaria’s Plovdiv – Bourgas railway connection

November 15, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ, Bourgas, Plovdiv

The European Union is investing more than 293 million euro from the Cohesion Fund in a more modern, faster and safer railway

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