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Bulgarian President critical of country’s handling of EU Presidency

July 3, 2018July 3, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Bulgaria EU presidency, Bulgarian EU Presidency, Roumen Radev

A few days after the close of the Bulgarian Presidency of the Council of the EU, President Roumen Radev again

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Bulgaria 

Unemployment in Bulgaria hits new low, 5% in May 2018

July 2, 2018July 12, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

Unemployment in Bulgaria hit another new low in May 2018, at five per cent, well below the EU average and

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Bulgaria 

Tsipras, Borissov sign joint declaration regarding the IGB construction

June 30, 2018July 2, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Greece

Greek premier Alexis Tsipras and his Bulgarian counterpart, Boiko Borissov signed a common declaration on the IGB natural gas pipeline that

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Bulgaria 

Poll: Business sentiment in Bulgaria in June 2018 drops off nine-year high

June 29, 2018June 29, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

A regular monthly poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) said that views of the business climate in the country

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Europe 

Tsipras: Greece now a case study of economic recovery

June 27, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

From 2015 to 2018 Greece has turned itself from an example of monumental fiscal failure to a case study for

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia sign memorandum on test corridor for driverless vehicles

June 26, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Serbia

Cabinet ministers from Bulgaria, Greece and Serbia signed on June 26 a memorandum envisaging a Balkan transport test corridor for

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Europe 

EU considers opening membership negotiations with Macedonia, Albania by summer 2019

June 26, 2018July 1, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Macedonia

Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Kotzias said that discussions are taking place in the EU between the countries in

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Europe 

Bulgarian FM Zaharieva: Full support for EU membership negotiations with Skopje lacking

June 25, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

About four-fifths of European Union countries favour opening EU membership accession negotiations with Skopje, realising that an extremely important and

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Europe 

EU to grant 30M euro to develop broadband infrastructure in Western Balkans

June 25, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

Under the Western Balkan Investment Framework (WBIF), 30 million euro in EU grants will be made available to deploy broadband

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