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EIB lends Bulgaria 500M euro to co-finance priority infrastructure investments

November 28, 2014November 30, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is lending 500 million euro to Bulgaria to co-finance priority projects supported by EU funds

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Bulgaria’s security agency head faces resignation calls after addressing Parliament on anti-terror raid

November 27, 2014November 30, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The head of Bulgaria’s State Agency for National Security (SANS), Vladimir Pisanchev, has come under harsh political criticism from parties

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Bulgaria bases policy on national interests, EU values, Foreign Minister tells Russian ambassador

November 27, 2014November 28, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, South Stream

Bulgarian Foreign Minister Daniel Mitov has held talks with Russian ambassador Yuriy Isakov, telling him that as a member of

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Bulgarian PF co-leader: ‘Only useful thing is to withdraw support from government’

November 27, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The only useful route to take is to withdraw our support from the government, nationalist Patriotic Front (PF) co-leader Krassimir

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Mosque in Bulgaria’s Pazardzhik, focus of anti-terrorism raid, not under jurisdiction of Chief Mufti

November 27, 2014November 27, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency

The Ebu Bekir mosque in the Bulgarian town of Pazardzhik that was a focus of a security operation against alleged

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Bulgaria to prosecute several arrested after raid against ‘radical Islam’

November 26, 2014November 28, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The Regional Prosecutor’s office in the Bulgarian town of Pazardzhik has laid criminal charges against Ahmed Musa Ahmed of taking

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Bulgarian Cabinet mandates Finance Ministry to contract bridge loan

November 26, 2014November 26, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Government gave Finance Minister Vladislav Goranov the mandate to begin talks with four banks to contract a short-term bridge

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Bulgarian Parliament passes 2014 Budget revision at second reading

November 26, 2014November 28, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Parliament passed at second reading on November 26 the revision of the 2014 Budget Act, which envisions a sharp

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Bulgaria’s new government changes almost all country’s regional governors

November 26, 2014November 27, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Plovdiv, Sofia

Bulgaria’s centre-right coalition cabinet headed by Boiko Borissov has, close to three weeks after taking office, replaced 24 of the

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