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Bulgaria January-February 2017 Budget surplus at 831.8M leva

March 31, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first two months of 2017 was 831.8 million leva,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria utilities regulator hikes gas prices by 29.6%

March 31, 2017April 2, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s utilities regulator decided on March 31 to raise gas prices in the country by 29.6 per cent starting April

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Special prosecutors investigating Mareshki for price dumping on fuel market

March 31, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2017

Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General’s office confirmed on March 31 that Varna businessman and newly-elected MP, Volya leader Vesselin Mareshki, was under investigation

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Sofia to test siren alarm system on April 3 2017

March 31, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Sirens will sound in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia at on April 3 at 1pm in a test of the early warning

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Bulgarian prosecutors indict former irrigation, agriculture fund officials

March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s prosecutor’s office said on March 31 that it had filed charges in two separate investigations against former executives at

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church head meets initiator of Nobel Prize nomination of church for saving Bulgarian Jews from Holocaust

March 31, 2017April 2, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The head of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Neofit, held talks on March 31 with Moshe Aloni, one of the

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Bulgaria 

GERB, United Patriots to meet again for coalition government talks next week

March 31, 2017April 2, 2017 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Volen Siderov

The three leaders of Bulgaria’s nationalist United Patriots met the leadership of Boiko Borissov’s GERB party for an hour on

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Bulgarian coalition government talks: United Patriots leaders arrive at GERB headquarters

March 31, 2017March 31, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2017, Volen Siderov

The three leaders of Bulgaria’s nationalist coalition, the United Patriots, were seen arriving at the headquarters of Boiko Borissov’s GERB

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Roman-era building walls found in construction site in Bulgaria’s Varna

March 31, 2017 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Varna

Part of the walls of a building estimated to date to the Roman era around the third century CE have

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