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Bulgaria among three EU countries to exceed 2020 renewable energy targets – Eurostat

March 10, 2015March 11, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Three European Union member states – Bulgaria, Estonia and Sweden – had exceeded their renewable energy targets for 2020 in

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Bulgaria 

Germany ready to assist Bulgaria in necessary reforms – Steinmeier

March 10, 2015March 11, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Germany is ready to provide assistance for the necessary reforms in Bulgaria, German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in Sofia

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv wins 740 000 euro project to digitise cultural heritage

March 10, 2015March 11, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Plovdiv municipality has been awarded 740 000 euro by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area to digitise close

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Justice Ministry proposes criminal law changes to fight terrorism

March 10, 2015March 11, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

The Bulgarian Ministry of Justice published on March 10 proposed amendments to the Penal Code with the main aim of

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Bulgaria 

Five regions in southern Bulgaria still in difficulties over snowfall

March 10, 2015March 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Hundreds of villages and small towns in southern Bulgaria began March 10 without electricity and with blocked local roads as

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Bulgaria 

Heavy snowfall in Bulgaria claims new victim as man found frozen to death

March 9, 2015March 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

A 65-year-old man was found frozen to death in a village in Bulgaria’s southern Kurdzhali, three days after he went

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Bulgaria 

Problem of hate speech should be discussed openly, Bulgarian President says at meeting with American Jewish Committee

March 9, 2015March 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

The problems arising from the use of hate speech should be discussed openly, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev said at a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s defence minister fires head of Military Intelligence

March 9, 2015March 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Defence Minister Nikolai Nenchev has fired the director of Military Intelligence, Vesselin Ivanov, the Defence Ministry said on March

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Bulgaria 

Elections in Bulgaria today would produce a similar parliament – Exacta poll

March 9, 2015March 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Were Bulgaria to hold elections today, the new parliament would be largely similar to the one elected in October 2014,

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