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Bulgaria records second straight month of deflation

July 12, 2012July 12, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s consumer price index fell by one per cent in June, the second straight month of deflation, pushing the year-on-year

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria likely to allow continued construction on beachfronts

July 12, 2012July 12, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Parliament passed at first reading amendments to the Black Sea Coast Act that banned most construction on beachfronts on

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Number of foreigners living in Bulgaria well below EU average

July 12, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria is among four European Union member states with the lowest number of resident foreigners, at 0.5 per cent of

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Bulgaria 

Russian lawmakers approve internet blacklist measure

July 12, 2012July 12, 2012 Marissa Melton of VOANews

Russia’s lower house of parliament has approved a bill that gives the government power to blacklist websites containing what officials

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria comes up with draft law on funeral agencies, burials

July 12, 2012July 12, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

A funeral agency that advertises its services in a hospital or tries to tout for business in a morgue will

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria opens new 35km stretch of Trakiya motorway to the Black Sea

July 12, 2012June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff motorways

Travelling time from Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia to the Black Sea coast is being further reduced by the opening on

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgaria’s Cabinet nominates former dissident Bochev among four new ambassadors

July 11, 2012July 11, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Cabinet has nominated four new ambassadors, in the latest round of the changing of the guard in the country’s

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria to ask for delay in switch to digital broadcasting

July 11, 2012 Alex Bivol

Bulgaria’s Government plans to ask the European Commission to postpone the deadline for the switch to digital broadcasting, now set

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Bulgaria News 

Protests and price hikes cost Borissov and Bulgaria’s leaders popularity – poll

July 11, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Disenchantment with Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB Government and its leader, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, after the Forestry Act amendments controversy and

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