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Month: July 2019

Bulgaria 

Losing bidders appeal against Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport concession pick

July 29, 2019August 1, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Airport

Bulgaria’s competition watchdog received formal appeals from all four losing bidders in the Sofia Airport concession tender before the deadline

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Bulgaria 

African Swine Fever: First outbreak in Bulgaria’s Vidin confirmed

July 29, 2019July 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff African Swine Fever

The Bulgarian Food Safety Agency (BNSA) said on July 29 that it had confirmed a new outbreak of African Swine

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Bulgaria 

African Swine Fever: Bulgaria sets up 20km sanitary zone around industrial pig farms

July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff African Swine Fever

Twenty kilometre sanitary zones are being set up around all 62 registered industrial pig farms in Bulgaria, the country’s Agriculture

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Business 

Poll sees business climate in Bulgaria in July unchanged from June

July 29, 2019July 29, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency

Results of a regular monthly poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute showed the business climate in the country as seen

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Bulgaria 

Driving change: Car ownership in Bulgaria since the fall of the Wall

July 29, 2019August 2, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

In 2019, Bulgaria marks 30 years since the internal communist party coup that brought down long-time dictator Todor Zhivkov on

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Bulgaria 

African Swine Fever: 1000 pigs in ‘back yards’ in Bulgaria’s Dobrich to be killed

July 28, 2019July 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff African Swine Fever

About 1000 pigs in back yards are to be killed in the Bulgarian district of Dobrich as part of its

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria road agency warns of e-vignette sale disruptions on July 29

July 28, 2019July 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The system for selling electronic road tax vignettes could be disrupted on July 29 between 5pm and 11pm, Bulgaria’s Road

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Bulgaria 

Agriculture Minister: Bulgaria ‘strictly follows’ EU rules to tackle African Swine Fever

July 27, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff African Swine Fever

Bulgaria is strictly following the European rules for tackling African Swine Fever, Agriculture Minister Dessislava Taneva said in a television

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Transport Minister orders investigation into flight delays

July 27, 2019July 27, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Airport

Transport Minister Rossen Zhelyazkov has ordered the Civil Aviation Administration to start inspections of the air carriers operating to and

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