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Month: March 2019

Europe 

Ethnic issues, foreign policy key in North Macedonia presidential campaign

March 4, 2019March 6, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

The candidates who will stand in the Republic of North Macedonia’s April 21 2019 presidential elections have now been confirmed.

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Europe 

EU moves to reduce costs of cross-border payments in euro

March 4, 2019March 6, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The Council of the European Union said on March 4 that it had adopted a regulation on aligning the costs

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Europe 

EU to enable easier recovery of unpaid road tolls

March 4, 2019March 6, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Unpaid road tolls “could soon be history”, as the EU is setting up a new information-sharing system to enable member

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Bulgaria 

‘Plovdiv Karavana’ to feature artistic companies from Belgium, France, Italy, Switzerland in June 2019

March 4, 2019March 6, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Thirteen artistic companies from Belgium, France, Italy and Switzerland – part of CITI, the International Centre for Travelling Theatres –

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria deputy central bank governor for bank supervision to resign

March 1, 2019March 5, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s central bank said on March 1 that Dimitar Kostov, deputy governor of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) in charge

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s anti-corruption body finds no conflict of interest in Finance Minister case

March 1, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s anti-corruption body has completed its investigation into the living arrangements of the country’s Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov and concluded

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Bulgaria 

Unemployment in Bulgaria 4.8% in January 2019 – Eurostat

March 1, 2019March 1, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Unemployment in Bulgaria in January 2019 was 4.8 per cent, unchanged from December 2018 and down from 5.6 per cent

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s March 2019 long weekend: Cloudy weather, rain possible

March 1, 2019March 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarians set for a three-day weekend because of the March 4 special public holiday faced forecasts of mainly partly cloudy

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria is not Russia’s Trojan Horse in Nato, PM Borissov tells Stoltenberg

March 1, 2019March 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Nato, Roumen Radev, Russia

Bulgaria is not Russia’s Trojan Horse in Nato but is among the alliance’s most disciplined and loyal members, Prime Minister

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