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Month: March 2019

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs pass Electoral Code amendments on preferential voting

March 27, 2019March 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on March 27 to pass at second reading amendments to the country’s Electoral Code on validity thresholds

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria gives 3.5M leva aid to countries in Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and Caucasus

March 27, 2019March 27, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria is granting 3 485 028 leva (about 1.78 million euro) to countries in the Western Balkans, Eastern Europe and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Food Safety Agency starts airdrops against rabies in wild animals

March 27, 2019March 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Twelve specially-equipped aircraft will drop more than a million vaccines across several parts of Bulgaria to counter rabies in wild

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament extends deadline for probe into alleged graft in issuing citizenship

March 27, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria’s National Assembly agreed on March 27 to extend by three months the deadline for an ad hoc committee investigating

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Business 

EU moves to facilitate cross-border mobility of companies

March 27, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

EU ambassadors to the Council of the EU endorsed on March 27 a deal reached with the European Parliament on

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Bulgaria 

Sofia police seek owners of eight bicycles

March 27, 2019March 27, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Police in Sofia are seeking the owners of eight bicycles found during a special operation in the Bulgarian capital city,

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Bulgaria 

Key prosecution witness takes stand in CCB trial in Bulgaria

March 26, 2019March 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

The landmark trial on the collapse of Corporate Commercial Bank (CCB) in Bulgaria held the first hearing on the substance

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Bulgaria 

Sofia Airport concession tender deadline delayed again, to April 11

March 26, 2019March 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Airport

Bulgaria’s Transport Ministry has postponed the deadline for bids in the tender for the 35-year concession on Sofia Airport for

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Europe 

European Parliament backs proposal to end switch between summer and winter time in 2021

March 26, 2019March 27, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Members of the European Parliament voted on March 26 to end from 2021 the practice of adjusting clocks by an

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