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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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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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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Plovdiv holding ‘River Feast’ event on September 1

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

Plovdiv, European Capital of Culture 2019, is holding a “River Feast” event on September 1, with a fireworks-music-and-light show, musical

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Bulgarian sappers to destroy corroded artillery shell found in Tvarditsa

August 28, 2019August 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

In the latest incident in recent days involving the finding of unexploded old munitions in Bulgaria, a highly corroded 122m

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Bulgarian lender Banka DSK fined 1M leva for data breach

August 28, 2019September 1, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s commission for personal data protection said on August 28 that it had fined Banka DSK, the country’s second-largest lender

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria road agency check finds 120 illegal refuse dumps under bridges

August 28, 2019September 1, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The check ordered by Bulgaria’s Road Infrastructure Agency in the wake of the fire that damaged the supports on a

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: 20m ancient tower uncovered at Maltepe mound site in Bulgaria

August 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Plovdiv

A team from the Regional Archaeological Museum in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv has uncovered a 20 metre-high tower at the

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Bulgarian government approves record 70M leva for 2019 municipal elections

August 28, 2019August 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

At a Cabinet meeting on August 28, Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved spending 70.7 million leva (about 36.1 million euro) on the

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Bulgaria 

Petition smears Jewish deputy head of Bulgaria’s ethnic integration council

August 28, 2019August 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

An online petition is using false allegations to seek the resignation of Maxim Benvenisti, a member of the executive board

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