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Greece’s elections: Mitsotakis’s New Democracy wins by landslide

July 8, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

With more than 92 per cent of votes counted in the early hours of Monday morning, the conservative New Democracy

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria summons Serbian ambassador after Dačić slams Bulgarian PM over Kosovo

July 6, 2019July 9, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Kosovo, Serbia

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry said on July 6 that the Serbian ambassador was being summoned to a meeting at the ministry

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Parliament gives final approval to cutting state subsidies for political parties

July 4, 2019July 7, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria’s National Assembly approved on July 4 the second reading of amendments to the 2019 Budget Act that cut the

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Business 

Bulgaria competition watchdog re-instates Saudi firm Arkad as gas grid capacity expansion contractor

July 1, 2019July 5, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency energy

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) has ruled to re-instate Saudi Arabian Arkad Engineering as the winner in the

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Bulgaria 

Unemployment in Bulgaria 4.5% in May 2019 – Eurostat

July 1, 2019July 2, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Unemployment in Bulgaria in May 2019 was 4.5 per cent, unchanged from April and down from 5.3 per cent in

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Europe 

First gay pride rally held in North Macedonia

June 29, 2019June 29, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Several hundred LGBT activists marched through the North Macedonian capital Skopje on June 29 for the country’s first Gay Pride Parade.

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Bulgaria 

Foreign ministers of Bulgaria, North Macedonia urge historians to finalise work on shared history

June 28, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

The foreign ministers of Bulgaria and of North Macedonia, Ekaterina Zaharieva and Nikola Dimitrov, want historians from the two countries

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Business 

Poll sees business climate in Bulgaria as having worsened in June 2019

June 28, 2019June 29, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency

A regular monthly poll by Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI) has found that the country’s business climate is seen as

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria and Romania to draft agreement on third bridge over Danube

June 27, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Bulgaria and Romania will prepare an intergovernmental agreement to build a third bridge over the Danube between Svishtov and Zimnicea,

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