Danube flooding ‘unlikely to affect Bulgaria’
Water levels of the Danube near the Bulgarian town of Svishtov are rising but authorities have said that there is
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Bulgarian President opposes backtrack on smoking ban
Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has spoken out against a backtrack on the country’s full ban on smoking in enclosed public
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Bulgaria’s new socialist government purges more senior officials
The head of Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulation Commission (SEWRC), the head of the Public Financial Inspection Agency and
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Bulgarian Parliament approves temporary scale-back of MP salaries
Bulgaria’s lawmakers passed a motion on June 5 to scale back their own salaries to their 2009 levels. Starting June
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Bulgaria’s Oresharski meets EU, Nato ambassadors
Plamen Oresharski, appointed prime minister of Bulgaria as of May 29 in the socialist government, held his first official meeting
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A birthday, and a new look for The Sofia Globe
In celebration of the first birthday on June 4 2013 of The Sofia Globe, the daily news and features website
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Bulgaria has held more than 200 would-be illegal immigrants so far this year
The latest arrest by Bulgarian border police of would-be illegal migrants, six people who said they were from Syria and
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‘Behaviour’ theme of Otets Paisii street festival in Plovdiv from June 7 to 9
Exhibitions, installations, concerts, theatre and performance – parallel urban culture will invade Bulgaria’s second city of Plovdiv on June 7,
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Amendments to Bulgaria’s smoking ban to be tabled ‘next week’
Amendments to the Health Act partly reversing Bulgaria’s full ban on smoking in restaurants, bars, hotels and other public places
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