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Joint Bulgarian-Romanian traffic police teams to patrol four districts in Bulgaria

June 27, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency

Joint Bulgarian-Romanian traffic police teams are to patrol roads in four districts in Bulgaria in summer 2019, Bulgarian National Television

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Bulgaria 

Foreign Minister of North Macedonia expects understanding with Bulgaria on history will be reached

June 26, 2019June 26, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Speaking to the media in Skopje, North Macedonian Foreign Minister Nikola Dimitrov said that he expects that an understanding will

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party lacks money to repay 4.29M leva overpaid state subsidy

June 26, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Kornelia Ninova

Kornelia Ninova’s Bulgarian Socialist Party lacks the funds to repay the 4.29 million leva (about 2.19 million euro) it owes

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Education Ministry orders changes after controversy over new school history books view of communist era

June 25, 2019June 25, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Education has made recommendations for corrections to new 10th grade history textbooks after a controversy over the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM: Decision by end of July on cutting state subsidies for political parties

June 25, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov

A decision will be taken by the end of July on how much to reduce state subsidies for political parties,

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Europe 

Strategic defeat for Erdogan, Imamoglu the new mayor of Istanbul

June 23, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

With a clear victory, 49-year-old Ekrem Imamoglu won the repeat municipal elections in Istanbul on June 23. The opposition candidate

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs shelve vote on bill to cut state subsidies for political parties

June 21, 2019June 25, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Valeri Simeonov

Bulgaria’s Parliament postponed the vote on the second reading of the bill that would cut state subsidies for political parties

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Bulgaria 

FDI in Bulgaria shows 54.9M euro outflow in January-April 2019

June 20, 2019June 25, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first four months of 2019 recorded an outflow of 54.9 million euro, the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM’s GERB agrees to MRF proposal on ‘open’ party financing

June 19, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party has agreed to a proposal by the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF)

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