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Bulgaria annual CPI records 2% deflation in May

June 13, 2016July 12, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s consumer price index (CPI) shrank by two per cent year-on-year in May, while the monthly data showed a flat

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Austria: Bulgaria a reliable partner in solving refugee crisis

June 12, 2016June 14, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis

Bulgaria has long been a reliable partner in solving the refugee crisis, Austria’s foreign minister Sebastian Kurz told his visiting

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria chooses Junior Eurovision 2016 contestant

June 12, 2016June 12, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Eurovision

Ten-year-old Lidiya Ganeva of Plovdiv was chosen on June 11 to represent Bulgaria at the 2016 Junior Eurovision song contest, to

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After Sunny Beach shooting, Bulgaria makes show of tax, cop checkups

June 11, 2016June 14, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

After a night-time shootout at the Sunny Beach coastal resort which left one man dead and one of Bulgaria’s most

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Pan-Orthodox Council: Bulgarian, Russian Orthodox Church positions ‘overlap’

June 10, 2016June 13, 2016 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The Georgian Orthodox Church said on June 10 it would not attend the Pan-Orthodox Council in Crete in June, the

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Keep a civil tongue in your head, Bulgarian President tells MPs

June 10, 2016June 13, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev has appealed to the country’s politicians to stop what he called the daily

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Bulgaria 

Paris-Sofia flight on June 11 cancelled over Air France pilot strike

June 10, 2016June 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

The Air France flight from Paris to Sofia, as well as the corresponding return flight, on June 11 have been

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Bulgaria 

Greek church backdown on cremation could cut profits at Sofia crematorium

June 10, 2016June 10, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Every morning at the crematorium in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia, there is a long queue of hearses with Greek registration

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Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry: Security at Sunny Beach ‘good’, to be stepped up

June 10, 2016June 13, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

In the wake of the shootout at Bulgaria’s Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach that left one man dead and

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