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Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted on July 19 overwhelmingly in favour of an updated version of a project to acquire two patrol vessels for the navy for a sum close to […]
Bulgaria’s National Assembly has elected a temporary all-party committee to investigate allegations of abuses in obtaining driving licences. The committee was set up following a hunger strike of more than […]
Senior government officials, the ambassador of Israel and leaders of the Bulgarian Jewish community were among those who took part in a July 18 commemoration at Bourgas Airport of the […]
Bulgaria’s government approved on July 18 the formal application for close co-operation with the European Central Bank (ECB), the first step towards joining the ERM II exchange rate mechanism, sometimes […]
Bulgarian Parliament voted on July 18 to reject the motion tabled by the opposition socialists, which called for the cancellation of the government tender to pick a private operator for […]
Bulgaria’s government agreed on July 18 to an investment project that envisages spending 100 million leva (about 51 million euro) on new passenger trains for state railways BDZ in the […]
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov dismissed Deputy Agriculture Minister Tsvetan Dimitrov and other officials on July 18 over the handling of the ovine rinderpest outbreak, as farmers held a large […]
The government in Sofia said on July 18 that it had given permission to the Dutch research vessel RV Pelagia to carry out studies in Bulgaria Black Sea waters in […]
Work on developing an archaeoligical park and visitor centre at the Slatina site in Bulgarian capital city Sofia is to start in autumn 2019, mayor Yordanka Fandukova said. Archaeologists have […]
Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded 3.2 per cent inflation in June, up 0.6 percentage points compared to a month earlier, as well as 0.1 per cent inflation on […]
