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Dead dolphins again wash up on shores of Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast

August 4, 2015August 9, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Summer 2015 is again seeing numbers of dead dolphins washing up on the shore of Bulgaria’s Black Sea coastline, with

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria backtracks on camera, video monitoring of traffic cops

August 4, 2015August 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s traffic police are again being allowed to issue fines without being subject to video and audio recording, with the

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Bulgaria’s new electricity prices still facing opposition

August 3, 2015August 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s largest employer organisations have threatened to hold new protests in September, with the support of trade unions, should the

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Sofia court requests clarity on bid to extradite retail chain boss to Italy

August 3, 2015August 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Sofia City Court is to request further information before deciding on an application for the extradition of a Bulgarian retail

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Bulgaria revenue agency launches check of print media

August 3, 2015August 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Media

Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency (NRA) said on August 3 that it has started checking the finances of all print media,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria Budget surplus at 890M leva in H1 2015

August 3, 2015August 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry said that the consolidated Budget surplus in the first half of 2015 came in at 890 million

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EC approves 34M euro Bulgaria – Serbia cross-border co-operation programme

August 3, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Serbia

The European Commission has approved the 34 million euro Bulgaria-Serbia Cross-border Co-operation Programme for 2014 to 2020, which covers six

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Archaeology: Fifth-century tomb found on St Ivan island near Bulgaria’s Sozopol

August 1, 2015August 1, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered a tomb, estimated to date from the fifth century CE, on St Ivan island off the

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Bulgarian archaeologists make rare find of fragment of 11th-century rakiya cauldron

August 1, 2015August 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Archaeologists working at the Lyutitsa fortress near Ivailovgrad in southern Bulgaria have found a fragment of a cauldron dating from

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