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Month: November 2018

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Bulgarian police arrest 22-year-old for anti-Le Pen graffiti on Soviet Army Monument

November 17, 2018November 17, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Police in Bulgarian capital Sofia took a 22-year-old man into 72-hour custody after he sprayed graffiti on the Soviet Army

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Bulgaria 

Fitch re-affirms Bulgaria’s BBB credit rating

November 17, 2018November 19, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Credit ratings agency Fitch has affirmed Bulgaria’s long-term credit rating at ‘BBB‘ with a stable outlook, noting that the country

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Bulgaria 

MRF’s Karadayi: Resignation of Simeonov was obligatory, belated and will change nothing

November 17, 2018November 17, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Valeri Simeonov

The resignation of Valeri Simeonov as Bulgaria’s deputy prime minister was obligatory, belated and will not change anything, according to

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Bulgaria 

Opposition Bulgarian socialist leader: Simeonov’s resignation will not change anything

November 17, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Kornelia Ninova, Valeri Simeonov

Opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Kornelia Ninova has congratulated protesting mothers of children with disabilities on the resignation of Valeri

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Ataka leader Siderov: Simeonov’s resignation as deputy PM ‘belated’

November 17, 2018November 17, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Krassimir Karakachanov, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

The resignation of Valeri Simeonov as deputy prime minister was belated, Ataka leader Volen Siderov said on November 17. Siderov,

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Bulgaria 

Karakachanov: It is up to Simeonov to nominate his successor as Deputy PM

November 17, 2018November 17, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Krassimir Karakachanov, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

Valeri Simeonov resigned as deputy prime minister in a personal capacity and has not withdrawn as a coalition partner, so

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria electronic road tax vignettes go on sale online on December 17 – road agency

November 17, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Motorists will be able to buy Bulgaria’s new electronic road tax stickers – officially known as “vignettes” – online via

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s ‘high fuel price’ protesters again block motorway

November 16, 2018November 16, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Lyulin Motorway was blocked by protesters mobilised around “high fuel prices” in the country, Bulgarian National Radio said on

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Bulgaria 

After Simeonov’s resignation as Bulgaria’s Deputy PM: The big questions

November 16, 2018November 18, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Valeri Simeonov

Journalists in Bulgaria who may have expected the sharply chilly late autumn evening of November 16 to present nothing other

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