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Month: August 2019

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria January-July 2019 Budget surplus at 3.22B leva

August 30, 2019September 2, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said on August 30 that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first seven months of 2019 was

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Bulgaria 

Unemployment in Bulgaria was 4.5% in July 2019 – Eurostat

August 30, 2019September 2, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Unemployment in Bulgaria was 4.5 per cent in July 2019, the same percentage it has been every month since April

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Bulgaria 

Brexit: £3 million grant for charities, voluntary organisations to help UK nationals in EU

August 30, 2019September 2, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Brexit

The British government is providing up to £3 million in grant funding for charities and other voluntary organisations who will

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Europe 

UN: ‘Dramatic resurgence’ of measles threatens European region

August 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Europe has lost ground in eliminating measles, as the number of countries having achieved or sustained elimination of the disease has

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Bulgaria 

Polish Institute in Sofia to screen Battle of Britain film to mark 80th anniversary of start of Second World War

August 30, 2019August 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The Polish Institute in Sofia is to screen the 2018 film Squadron 303 on September 3 to mark the 80th

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria sends first of eight Su-25 aircraft to Belarus for overhaul

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria has sent the first of a total of eight Soviet-era Su-25 military aircraft to Belarus for overhauling and retrofitting,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s tax agency fined 5.1M leva for data breach – watchdog

August 29, 2019September 1, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Commission for Personal Data Protection will impose a fine of 5.1 million leva (about 2.6 million euro) on the

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Business 

August 2019 poll: Business climate in Bulgaria ‘unfavourable’

August 29, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency

The business climate in Bulgaria in August 2019 is seen as unfavourable, according to a regular monthly poll by the

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Bulgaria 

Five Bulgarian Food Safety Agency officials face corruption charges

August 29, 2019August 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Five officials at the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency regional directorate in the Black Sea district of Bourgas, including the head

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