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Bulgarian President: ‘Resignations no longer a solution but an escape from responsibility’

September 3, 2018September 7, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has launched his latest scathing attack on Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s government by saying that resignations

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Two-thirds of Bulgarians approve ministerial resignations after Svoge bus crash – Alpha Research

September 3, 2018September 3, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Valeri Simeonov

Sixty-one per cent of Bulgarians polled by Alpha Research approved of the resignations of three Cabinet ministers that followed the

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Briton wins foot race along Black Sea coast celebrating EU’s freedom of movement

September 3, 2018September 7, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Brexit

As Brexit headlines dominate the pages of European media, a British runner finished first in a marathon-length foot race on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian nationalist minority party stops short of quitting governing coalition

September 3, 2018September 7, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Krassimir Karakachanov, Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov’s National Front for the Salvation of Bulgaria (NFSB) party will remain part of the

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Prices of alcohol and tobacco in Bulgaria rose close to 409 per cent between 2000 and 2017 – Eurostat

September 3, 2018September 5, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Prices in Bulgaria increased by 84.6 per cent between the year 2000 and 2017, with alcohol and tobacco prices jumping

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Bulgaria 

Operation to drain tanks of oil spill shipwreck off Bulgaria’s Sozopol begins

September 3, 2018September 5, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

The operation to drain heavy fuel oil from the wreck of US merchant vessel the Mopang off the coast of

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Bulgaria 

More than 6500 non-EU nationals employed at Bulgaria’s summer resorts in 2018 – report

September 2, 2018September 2, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency tourism

More than 6500 citizens of non-EU countries have been employed since May 2018 to work at Bulgaria’s Black Sea resorts

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Tourism Minister: 5.2M foreign tourists visited Bulgaria in first seven months of 2018

September 2, 2018September 2, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova said on September 1 that 5.2 million foreign tourists visited Bulgaria in the first seven

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Bulgaria’s Plovdiv to celebrate fourth anniversary of winning European Capital of Culture title

September 2, 2018September 5, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

A celebration organised by the Plovdiv 2019 Foundation and the municipality is to be held on September 5 to mark

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