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Bulgaria foreign trade gap shrinks in Q1 2016

May 10, 2016May 11, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s foreign trade gap in the first quarter of this year stood at 892.8 million leva, or 456.5 million euro, shrinking from

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian consumer confidence improves in April – poll

May 10, 2016May 11, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s consumer confidence indicator was 1.8 percentage points higher in April than in January, National Statistical Institute (NSI) said on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian nationalists propose burqa ban in Sofia

May 9, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Sofia

A Bulgarian nationalist group in Sofia municipal council has tabled a proposal to ban the wearing of the burqa in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s election law drama continues after presidential veto

May 8, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on May 8 that he believed that President Rossen Plevneliev was correct to veto

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Bulgaria 

Opposition Bulgarian Socialist Party elects first woman leader

May 8, 2016May 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian Socialist Party elected MP Kornelia Ninova its leader on May 8 2016, ousting incumbent Mihail Mikov. Ninova, a

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Bulgaria 

Strike strands Bulgarian tourists on Greek islands

May 8, 2016May 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

Crisis staffs have been set up at Bulgaria’s embassy in Athens and the consulate in Thessaloniki because a general strike

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Bulgaria 

Fergus McAuliffe: Serving science at the table

May 7, 2016May 12, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Sofia Science Festival

He imagines an evening, an ordinary family at the dinner table, and the conversation is about science – about the

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Bulgaria 

US praise for Bulgarian efforts against corruption

May 7, 2016May 7, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency

Visiting Sofia, United States Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken has praised what he described as the successful efforts that

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Bulgaria 

President Plevneliev vetoes electoral law on Bulgarians voting abroad

May 7, 2016May 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has vetoed amendments to the Electoral Code that cut back the voting rights of Bulgarians abroad.

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