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FDI in Bulgaria in H1 2018 was 246.2M euro

August 17, 2018August 17, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first half of 2018 stood at 246.2 million euro, the equivalent of 0.5

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Bulgarian Tourism Minister to sue former deputy tourism minister for defamation

August 17, 2018August 17, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency tourism

Bulgarian Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova said on August 17 that she would take court action against former deputy tourism minister

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Bulgaria has second-lowest meat prices in EU – Eurostat

August 17, 2018August 21, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat

Among European Union countries, Poland has the lowest meat prices, closely followed by Bulgaria, according to figures released on August

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Bulgaria Traffic Police record more than 28 000 speedsters in six days

August 17, 2018August 21, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Traffic Police say that they registered more than 28 000 cases of motorists breaking the speed limit between August

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Bulgaria’s ‘Red Baron’: Looking on Lukanov

August 17, 2018August 21, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

As his body lay in a morgue in Sofia – and he was not spared the final indignity of a

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Bulgarian PM Borissov hints at sackings after Trade Register debacle

August 16, 2018August 17, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on August 16 that he planned to make changes in the management of the

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Work starts on new 16km stretch of Bulgaria’s Hemus Motorway

August 16, 2018August 16, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and other senior officials attended a ceremony on August 16 to inaugurate construction of a 16km

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Draining of oil spill shipwreck off Bulgaria’s Sozopol ‘could begin within days’

August 15, 2018August 20, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Draining of heavy fuel oil from the Mopang, the American vessel sunk off Sozopol in 1921 and the source of

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Bulgaria 

After Genoa tragedy, Bulgarian PM calls for action to fix bridges

August 15, 2018August 17, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

A day after the collapse of a motorway bridge in the Italian city of Genoa that cost at least 39

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