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Sofia public transport ticket price hike set to go into effect despite protests

May 31, 2016June 1, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The price of public transport tickets in Bulgarian capital Sofia will increase from one lev to 1.60 leva on June

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria joins in World No-Tobacco Day 2016

May 30, 2016May 31, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff smoking

Bulgaria’s Health Ministry has organised a number of events countrywide as part of May 31, World No-Tobacco Day. EU statistics

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian military assists Border Police at Kulata checkpoint

May 30, 2016May 31, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Greece

Sixty military personnel from a Blagoevgrad-based unit were continuing to assist Border Police teams at the Kulata checkpoint at Bulgaria’s

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria central bank approves sale of TBI Bank

May 29, 2016May 31, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s central bank has approved the indirect sale of TBI Bank, one of Bulgaria’s smaller financial institutions, to Luxembourg-registered 4finance

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Bulgarian PM holds special meeting on migrant crossings at Greek border

May 29, 2016May 31, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Greece

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov called together senior officials for a special meeting in the south-west Bulgarian town of Blagoevgrad

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s President Plevneliev honours victims of communism in Belene

May 29, 2016May 31, 2016 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev

The crimes of communism have not been punished, the victims of the totalitarian regime did not receive justice and the

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Podcast: Timely release wagons; and Bulgarians and businesses, and other stories

May 27, 2016May 31, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff

If Bulgaria does not already baffle you, prepare to be bamboozled by the buffoons responsible for what they imagine passes

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President takes referendum questions to Constitutional Court

May 27, 2016August 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2016, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev is asking the Constitutional Court to rule whether three of the questions planned

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Bulgaria 

Borissov: I could have been President years ago if I wanted

May 27, 2016August 28, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2016, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on May 27 that he did not see himself as the unifying right-wing candidate

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