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Bulgarian PM Borissov to meet Turkish counterpart in Istanbul

August 24, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Turkey

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov will meet on August 26 in Istanbul with his Turkish counterpart Binali Yildirim, who requested

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian socialist parties’ presidential electoral alliance fractures into acrimony

August 24, 2016August 28, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgaria elections 2016, Georgi Purvanov

The presidential electoral alliance between two of Bulgaria’s socialist parties, that briefly seemed to have seen them drawing closer together,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Turkish daily newspaper Zaman-Bulgaria closes

August 23, 2016August 24, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Media, Turkey

Zaman Bulgaria, a dual Turkish and Bulgarian-language daily dating back more than 24 years, has announced that it is closing

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian EU presidency ‘to cost 150M leva’

August 19, 2016August 23, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency

The Bulgarian presidency of the European Union, scheduled for the first half of 2018, will cost the country about 150

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Business 

FDI in Bulgaria in H1 2016 was 778.4M euro

August 17, 2016August 19, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first half of 2016 stood at 778.4 million euro, the equivalent of 1.7

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria sends humanitarian aid after Skopje, Tetevo fatal floods

August 17, 2016August 19, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Bulgaria’s Cabinet said on August 17 that it was sending humanitarian assistance worth about 120 000 leva (about 61 000

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Bulgaria 

Building of Kresna – Sandanski stretch of Struma motorway to begin in September

August 17, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Construction of the Kresna-Sandanski stretch of Bulgaria’s Struma Motorway, that will run to the Greek border, is to begin in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM orders Border Police chiefs fired over migrant transport contract

August 15, 2016August 16, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has ordered the dismissal of the top leadership of the Border Police after a contract

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria hands ‘Gülen ally’ Büyük to Turkey

August 11, 2016August 15, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Bulgaria has deported Turkish business person Abdullah Büyük, who has alleged ties to anti-Erdoğan opposition leader and Muslim cleric Fethullah

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