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Israel to assist Bulgaria’s agriculture sector, food exports

March 20, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Israel is to assist Bulgaria in the revival of its agricultural sector and is to seek the best Bulgarian food

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Bulgaria 

Lufthansa pilot strike to affect eight Sofia flights on March 20

March 19, 2015March 23, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

A total of eight direct flights between Sofia and the German airports of Frankfurt and Munich on March 20 have

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Mixed views on prospects for Bulgaria’s summer tourism season

March 19, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency tourism

Bulgaria will have a very difficult summer tourism season because of an expected decrease in Russian and Ukrainian tourists, but

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Bulgarian – American working groups hold first meeting

March 19, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The inaugural meeting of the US-Bulgaria Working Groups established during secretary of state John Kerry’s January 15 visit to Bulgaria

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv – Smolyan road partly re-opened as landslide clearing continues

March 19, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The section of the road between Assenovgrad and Smolyan, blocked five days previously by a huge landslide, had been partly

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Bulgaria 

Restructuring of Bulgaria’s law enforcement slowed efforts against illegal drugs – report

March 19, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

International drug trafficking organisations continue to traffic cocaine, heroin, synthetic drugs, and increasingly chemical precursors through Bulgaria into consumer countries

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Bulgaria 

Legal certainty essential to attract investors, Bulgarian President tells Parliament

March 19, 2015March 23, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

To attract investors and not oligarchs, legal certainty is essential, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said in a special address to

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Pending cases in ECHR against Bulgaria decreasing, cabinet says

March 18, 2015March 18, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s cabinet has adopted and is to table in Parliament a summarised annual report on the implementation of rulings of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs pass bank insolvency amendments

March 18, 2015March 20, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair

Bulgaria’s Parliament passed at second reading on March 18 the bill of amendments to the Bank Insolvency Act, which envision

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