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Luxembourg-based company ordered to pay back loan to Bulgaria’s defunct CCB

December 6, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Sofia City Court has ordered Luxembourg-based V2 Investment to pay back a 125 million euro loan from now-defunct Corporate Commercial

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian prosecutors charge controversial businessman after extradition

December 6, 2018December 6, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on December 6 that it has formally presented the bill of indictment to controversial businessman Nikolai

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Bulgaria 

For the second time, heavy rain brings down fence at Bulgarian – Turkish border

December 6, 2018December 7, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Refugees, Turkey

Part of the fence built by Bulgaria at the border with Turkey to stem illegal migration has fallen for a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria gives close to 900 000 leva for projects in Balkans, Moldova and Georgia

December 5, 2018December 5, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Macedonia, Moldova

Bulgaria’s Cabinet agreed on December 5 to conclude grant agreements for projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the  Republic of Macedonia,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria Cabinet confirms country will not join UN Global Compact for Migration

December 5, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Cabinet decided on December 5 that the country will not be joining the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Cabinet mandates Environment Minister to re-negotiate Bansko concession

December 5, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Government approved on December 3 the resolution that gave Environment Minister Neno Dimov the official mandate to re-negotiate the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria appoints tech expert as honorary consul covering Silicon Valley

December 5, 2018December 5, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Cabinet said on December 5 that it had appointed Bogomil Balkanski, a Bulgarian citizen, as an honorary consul in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian anti-organised crime squad seizes large arms caches in Sofia and Kazanluk

December 5, 2018December 5, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

An arms cache including automatic rifles, pistols, large quantities of ammunition, silencers and other items has been seized in a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs accept former minister Moskovski’s resignation from Parliament

December 5, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted on December 5 to accept the resignation of Ivailo Moskovski as an MP for Prime Minister

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