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Month: May 2019

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria January-April 2019 Budget surplus at 2.7B leva

May 31, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has said that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first four months of 2019 was 2.7 billion

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria buys 140M cubic metres of LNG, first shipment arrives in Greece

May 31, 2019June 3, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff energy

The first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG), part of a 140 million cubic metres purchase by Bulgarian state-owned gas

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission announces names of elected MEPs

May 31, 2019May 31, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian European elections 2019

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission announced on May 31 the names of the MEPs voted into office in the European Parliament

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s European elections: GERB victory ‘categorical’ – Borissov

May 31, 2019June 2, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian European elections 2019, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

The analysis of Bulgaria’s 2019 European Parliament elections is that GERB’s victory is clear and the resignations in the Bulgarian

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Bulgaria 

Sirens to sound in Bulgaria on June 2 2019 to honour memory of Hristo Botev

May 31, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Across Bulgaria, sirens will sound at noon on June 2 2019 in an annual custom honouring the memory of revolutionary,

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Bulgaria 

Tsvetanov quits all leadership posts in Bulgarian PM’s GERB party

May 30, 2019June 1, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian European elections 2019, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Tsvetan Tsvetanov has resigned from all leadership posts in Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB party. The resignation has

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Business 

Poll sees Bulgaria business climate improved in May 2019

May 30, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency

A regular monthly poll by the National Statistical Institute (NSI) found the business climate in Bulgaria in May 2019 improved

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s road agency announces arrangements for motorways in summer 2019

May 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Road Infrastructure Agency said on May 30 that because of the expected heavy traffic to the seaside during the

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Bulgaria 

World No Tobacco Day: 20% of cancer cases in Bulgaria are lung cancer

May 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff smoking

About 20 per cent of cancer cases in Bulgaria are lung cancer, European Union statistics agency Eurostat said in figures

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