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Month: March 2019

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Parliament approves 10-year deferment of debts of religious denominations

March 28, 2019March 31, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s National Assembly approved on March 28 the second and final reading of amendments to the Religious Denominations Act that

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian prosecutors probe Plovdiv taxi firms for 5M leva tax evasion

March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Prosecutors in Plovdiv have started a process of questioning about 2000 taxi drivers in Bulgaria’s second city in connection with

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways: March 31 change to daylight saving will affect schedules of 29 trains

March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

The change to daylight savings time in the early morning of March 31 will affect the schedules of 29 trains,

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Europe 

Plan envisages 10 000 staff for EU Border and Coast Guard agency by 2027

March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

New measures strengthening the European Border and Coast Guard to secure the EU’s borders were agreed by European Parliament and

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Europe 

EC welcomes European Parliament vote on ban on throwaway plastics by 2021

March 28, 2019March 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Commission has welcomed the adoption by the European Parliament of ambitious measures it had earlier proposed to tackle

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s anti-organised crime squad carried out 237 special operations in 2018

March 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Chief Directorate for Combating Organised Crime carried out 237 special operations in 2018, including 95 with other services in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM: No-deal Brexit will mean severe shocks

March 28, 2019March 31, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Brexit

Everyone is preparing for a no-deal Brexit, the consequences of which will be very heavy for the whole of Europe,

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Bulgaria 

Apartments controversy: Bulgarian PM Borissov names new head of GERB parliamentary group

March 28, 2019March 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Dr Daniela Daritkova is to succeed Tsvetan Tsvetanov as head of the GERB parliamentary group, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said

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Bulgaria 

Parliamentary leader of Bulgarian PM’s party resigns as MP over apartments controversy

March 27, 2019March 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

The parliamentary leader of Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party, Tsvetan Tsvetanov, said on March 27 that he was

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