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Month: December 2018

Business 

42% of self-employed in Bulgaria cite ‘suitable opportunity’ as reason

December 11, 2018December 12, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat

Forty-two per cent of self-employed people in Bulgaria cited “suitable opportunity” as the reason to go into business for themselves,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Traffic Police join EU-wide operation against drink-driving

December 10, 2018December 12, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Traffic Police are participating in an EU-wide operation by European traffic police Tispol from December 10 to 16 against

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Europe 

EU Agency for Fundamental Rights survey: ‘Persistent antisemitism hangs over EU’

December 10, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Antisemitic hate speech, harassment and fear of being recognised as Jewish; these are some of the realities of being Jewish

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev joins country’s Jewish community in celebration of Hannukah

December 9, 2018December 12, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Roumen Radev

Continuing the tradition set by Bulgaria’s democratically-elected heads of state, President Roumen Radev joined the country’s Jewish community on December

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Bulgaria 

Skopje responds to Bulgarian Deputy PM Karakachanov’s threat over Zaev’s ‘Macedonian language’

December 9, 2018December 11, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Krassimir Karakachanov, Macedonia

The Foreign Ministry in Skopje has responded to Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and VMRO party leader Krassimir Karakachanov’s threat to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to keep ‘blocking quota’ in future Belene nuclear plant – minister

December 7, 2018January 14, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Belene, energy

Bulgaria’s Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova presented in Parliament on December 7 the draft framework for the selection process of a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian municipalities to receive 15 000 euro each in EU funding for wi-fi named

December 7, 2018December 11, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Numerous municipalities in Bulgaria are among the 2800 in the EU named as approved for funding of 15 000 euro

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Bulgaria 

Exhibition ‘Apollonia Pontica – In the footsteps of archaeologists’ opens at Sofia Regional History Museum on December 13

December 7, 2018December 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

An exhibition entitled “Apollonia Pontica – In the footsteps of archaeologists” opens at the Sofia Regional History Museum in the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov: Entry of warships to Black Sea would lead to major crisis

December 7, 2018December 11, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Russia, Ukraine

The entry of warships to the Black Sea would inevitably lead to a major crisis, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov

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