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Month: May 2019

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Europe 

New system launched to help EU countries counter VAT fraud

May 15, 2019May 16, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Commission announced on May 15 the launch of a new system, the Transaction Network Analysis (TNA), to help

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Prosecutor-General asks security agency for information on undeclared holdings of top politicians

May 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has asked the State Agency for National Security for all information the agency has about assets

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Bulgaria 

Greece’s J&P Avax picked to build Bulgaria-Greece gas inter-connector pipeline

May 14, 2019May 16, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff energy

ICGB, project company for the Bulgaria-Greece gas inter-connector pipeline, said on May 14 that it picked Greek company J&P Avax

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov nominates Taneva to succeed Porozhanov as Agriculture Minister

May 14, 2019May 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

A few hours after the resignation of Roumen Porozhanov as Agriculture Minister, Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov tabled in Parliament

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Consumer Protection Commission to launch new probe into dual standards in food

May 14, 2019May 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Three successive investigations by the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency have confirmed dual standards in food products sold in Bulgaria and

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Europe 

Syrians, Venezuelans, Afghans top asylum applications in EU+ in March 2019

May 14, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Applications for international protection in the countries of the EU+ jumped by 20 per cent in a year to 58

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM Borissov accepts resignation of Agriculture Minister Porozhanov

May 14, 2019May 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has accepted the resignation of Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Roumen Porozhanov, the government

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Perspectives 

A Balkan tragedy: Of the Bulgarian village of Bolyarino, and life, and death

May 13, 2019May 13, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Somewhere in all the bald statements of the Plovdiv District Prosecutor’s Office and in the reporting by local media, there

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Bulgaria 

6000 military personnel to take part in Nato exercise in Bulgaria in May-June 2019

May 13, 2019May 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

At the initiative of Nato, a series of national and multinational military exercises will be held in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary,

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