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Bulgaria responds to ‘flood of migration to UK’ hysteria

February 1, 2013May 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Bulgarian leaders have responded to the hysteria being whipped up in some British publications and by the UKIP about a

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Beach at Lozenets on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s Public Works Minister asks prosecutors to act against building permits at Coral beach

February 1, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff beaches

Bulgarian Regional Development and Public Works Minister Liliyana Pavlova has asked prosecutors to intervene to ensure the revocation of all

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian President awards highest honours to seven people

February 1, 2013February 1, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian President Rossen Pleveneliev has awarded seven people with the country’s medal for courage, for actions undertaken to save others’

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian traffic police to check for valid road use stickers on vehicles

February 1, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

From February 1 2013, Bulgarian traffic police are to conduct large-scale checks that vehicles have road use stickers, known as

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Travel: Game changing

February 1, 2013February 1, 2013 Mark Thomas

Airlines such as Lufthansa, Air France and BA have one problem with their European flights; they lose money with them

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Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Sofia. Photo: Clive Leviev-Sawyer
Bulgaria News 

Countdown to the election of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s new Patriarch

January 31, 2013February 1, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

On February 15 2013, two weeks from today, the Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church will begin the two-day

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Bulgaria’s Payner pulls out of EU funding deal after controversy

January 31, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian media group Payner said that it decided to forego the request for European Union funding for its expansion project,

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Bulgaria Business Europe News 

House prices in Spain, Ireland saw largest decreases in Q3 2012 y/y, Eurostat says

January 31, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

European Union statistics office Eurostat released on January 31 2013 its first-ever figures on changes in house prices in the

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Bulgaria News 

Head of Bulgaria’s Transplantations Agency fired after only four transplants performed in a year

January 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

An intensive care specialist has been appointed to head Bulgaria’s Transplantation Agency after the incumbent was fired because it emerged

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