Bulgaria’s 2017 road death toll reaches 347 as August summer holiday peak season begins
A total of 347 people have died in road accidents in Bulgaria since the start of 2017, according to statistics
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Author: The Sofia Globe staff
Bulgaria H1 2017 Budget surplus at 1.75B leva
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first half of 2017 was 1.75 billion leva, or
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Former MP from Borissov’s GERB party faces six criminal charges, including for threatening murder
Bulgaria’s special anti-corruption unit at the Sofia City Prosecutor’s Office has lodged charges against Zhivko Martinov, formerly an MP for
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Less than 5 per cent of Bulgarian enterprises started in 2010 were still in business five years later – statistics institute
Just 4.8 per cent of enterprises founded in Bulgaria in 2010 were still in business in 2015, according to a
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More than half of Bulgarians cannot afford a week’s holiday away from home – Eurostat
More than half of Bulgarians cannot afford a week’s holiday away from home, making them among the worst-off in the
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Archaeology: More than 80 mediaeval tombs found at Bulgaria’s Perperikon
Professor Nikolai Ovcharov’s archaeological team working at the ancient sacred site of Perperikon in Bulgaria has discovered more than 80
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Bulgarian nationalist politician accused in people-trafficking case resigns from Simeonov’s party
Anelia Veleva, co-ordinator of Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov’s far-right National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria party in
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Bulgarian nationalist United Patriots MP: Commission for Protection against Discrimination is ‘redundant’
Pavel Shopov, an MP for the nationalist United Patriots and a long-standing member of Volen Siderov’s Ataka party, told Bulgaria’s
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Archaeology: Ancient stone baptismal vessel found at Plovdiv’s Episcopal Basilica site
A team of archaeologists coming to the close of a 10-month project at Plovdiv’s Episcopal Basilica site have found a
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