Bulgaria, Shell sign Black Sea off-shore oil and gas exploration contract
Royal Dutch Shell signed a contract on February 23 to explore for oil and gas in Bulgaria’s Black Sea economic
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Bulgaria to make CCB investigation report available to MPs, not public
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said on February 23 that it would make the report by AlixPartners Services UK LLP, the company
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Talks with Anastasiades open new horizon for co-operation, Plevneliev tells Cyprus business forum
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev told a Bulgarian-Cyprus business forum on February 23 that talks with visiting Cypriot president Nikos Anastasiades
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Bulgarian Foreign Minister denies Turkey is expelling consul from Istanbul
Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has rejected media reports that the country’s consul-general in Istanbul, Angel Angelov, has been declared
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Plovdiv to begin restoring Odeon archaeological site
After nearly one year, Bulgaria’s National Institute for Cultural Heritage has issued a permit to Plovdiv municipality to begin repairing
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Plovdiv starts campaign to neuter thousands of stray cats and dogs
Plovdiv municipality has begun a campaign to neuter stray cats and dogs after the latest estimates showed a huge rise
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Probe into assassination threat against Bulgarian PM Borissov
Bulgaria’s security services are investigating after a threat to assassinate Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov was received at the Cabinet
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Protesting Greek farmers again shut Kulata border checkpoint to lorries headed to Bulgaria
The Kulata-Promachonas border checkpoint was shut to lorries headed to Bulgaria from shortly before 4pm on February 22, Bulgaria’s Interior
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Bulgarian government fires head of State Agency for Refugees
Bulgaria’s cabinet dismissed Nikola Kazakov as head of the State Agency for Refugees on February 22 2016, the government media
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