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Day: June 4, 2019

Bulgaria 

European Rabbis name Chief Rabbi of Bulgaria ‘most promising’

June 4, 2019June 7, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

The Conference of European Rabbis has named Rabbi Yoel Yifrah, Chief Rabbi of Bulgaria, as the most promising Rabbi of

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Bulgaria 

US embassy: $1.6BN ‘not final price’ of Bulgaria’s F-16 deal

June 4, 2019June 7, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The United States embassy in Sofia became the latest on June 4 to clarify the meaning of an announcement by

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President refers State Property Act amendments to Constitutional Court

June 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev asked the Constitutional Court to strike down a set of amendments to the country’s State Property

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian competition watchdog fines Russian Uber clone’s operations

June 4, 2019June 7, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) has found the local subsidiary of Russian ride-sharing service Maxim to be in

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Bulgaria 

Heavy rains again hit parts of Bulgaria, more thunderstorms forecast

June 4, 2019June 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Heavy rains again hit parts of Bulgaria on June 4, flooding streets and pavements, in the latest of a succession

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s European elections: Commission fines TV stations for breaking law on opinion polls

June 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian European elections 2019, Media

Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission said on June 4 that bTV was to be fined for breaking the law by announcing

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Bulgaria 

Unemployment in Bulgaria 4.5% in April 2019 – Eurostat

June 4, 2019June 4, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Unemployment in Bulgaria was 4.5 per cent in April 2019, down from 4.6 per cent in March and down from

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Defence Minister: $1 billion would be ‘reasonable price’ to buy F-16s

June 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

About two billion leva “just over $1 billion, roughly speaking” would be a reasonable price for Bulgaria to pay to

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Bulgaria 

Lockheed Martin: $1.6BN ceiling ‘not indicative of final value’ of Bulgaria’s F-16 contract

June 4, 2019June 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The $1.673 billion estimate named in a US Defence Security Cooperation Agency statement is not indicative of the final value

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