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Day: April 18, 2019

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian prosecutors charge 7, including two former road agency bosses, over Svoge fatal bus crash

April 18, 2019April 18, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The Sofia District Prosecutor’s Office has lodged criminal charges against two former members of the Road Infrastructure Agency board of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian capital Sofia to buy 10 trams from Prague

April 18, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The city council in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia voted on April 18 to approve the purchase for 400 000 leva (about

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Bulgaria 

Notre-Dame fire: Bulgarian Orthodox Church expresses ‘deepest support’ for the French people

April 18, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgarian Orthodox Church head Patriarch Neofit said on April 18 that the church had learnt with a broken heart about

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM meets Iran’s Roads and Urban Development Minister

April 18, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov held talks on April 18 with Iran’s Minister of Roads and Urban Development Mohammad Eslami,

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Bulgaria 

FDI in Bulgaria shows 437.6M euro outflow in January-February 2019

April 18, 2019May 20, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first two months of the year recorded an outflow of 437.6 million euro,

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Bulgaria 

More than 30 000 ancient artefacts seized in crime bust to be returned to Bulgaria from Spain

April 18, 2019April 21, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

More than 30 000 illegally exported ancient artefacts seized in a bust of an organised crime group in Spain and

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Bulgaria 

Association of European Journalists – Bulgaria responds to RSF media freedom index

April 18, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Media

Although for the first time in many years Bulgaria did not fall in the media freedom index of Reporters Without

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Bulgaria 

Reporters Without Borders: ‘Journalism is now dangerous in Bulgaria’

April 18, 2019April 20, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Media

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has again ranked Bulgaria as lowest among European Union countries in its annual media freedom index,

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