Bulgaria’s Budget revision, CCB situation, ‘not to affect’ timetable for departure of parliament, cabinet
The agreement that Bulgaria’s current national Budget needs to be revised will not affect the timing of the dissolving of
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Costs mount from Bulgaria’s June floods, Sofia July hailstorm
Sofia municipality has put in a claim for a million leva (about 500 000 euro) for cleaning critical infrastructure after
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Barekov had highest income among Bulgaria’s new MEPs – declarations
Nikolai Barekov, the former talk show host who leads the populist Bulgaria Without Censorship (BWC) party, is shown by his
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Former Ukrainian president Yanukovych owns 20ha of land on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast – report
Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych owns a total of 20 hectares of land in popular seaside resort areas along Bulgaria’s
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Bulgaria to join EU banking union in wake of CCB collapse
Bulgaria’s political parties agreed on July 14 to launch proceedings to join the EU’s single supervisory mechanism of the European
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Plovdiv court orders district mayor removed from office pending trial on corruption allegations
Plovdiv Regional Court on July 14 order central district mayor Raina Petrova removed from office pending her trial in connection
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Sofia court releases Corporate Commercial Bank executive director on bail
At a hearing that lasted about nine hours until about 2am on July 14, Sofia City Court ordered Corporate Commercial
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Bulgarian prosecutors change charges against Corporate Commercial Bank accused
Sofia City Prosecutor’s office has amended the charges against four Corporate Commercial Bank officials arrested in connection with alleged siphoning
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Four arrested, Bulgaria’s political storm continues over Corporate Commercial Bank
In all, four people have by now been arrested in connection with the alleged draining of close to 206 million
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