Bulgarian hoteliers seek tax break to survive Thomas Cook bankruptcy
Bulgaria’s Minister of Tourism is to ask for a meeting with the country’s Finance Minister and hoteliers who are seeking
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Flights begin repatriating Thomas Cook customers from Bulgaria
The repatriation of foreign tourists who had arrived on holiday in Bulgaria on flights of the now-defunct Thomas Cook holiday
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Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General asks supreme court to suspend parole of Palfreeman
Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has petitioned the Supreme Court of Cassation to re-open the Jock Palfreeman case and suspend a ruling
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Judges on Bulgaria’s SJC concerned by tensions over Palfreeman case
The judicial college of Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) said on September 24 that it was concerned by the escalating
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Murder victim’s family to seek return of Palfreeman to prison
The family of Andrei Monov, the student killed in a stabbing incident in central Sofia in 2007, is to lodge
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Thomas Cook bankruptcy: Bulgarian Tourism Minister calls emergency meeting of tour operators
The bankruptcy of the Thomas Cook holiday firm will cause quite serious difficulties with regard to plans for Bulgaria’s 2020
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Bulgaria’s Plovdiv Jazz Fest 2019 begins on October 31
The 2019 Plovdiv Jazz Fest, a highlight of the Bulgarian city’s calendar as European Capital of Culture, opens on October
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Palfreeman remains in migrant detention centre pending issuing of new Australian passport
Jock Palfreeman, the Australian murder convict released from Sofia Central Prison after being paroled nine years ahead of the end
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Bulgaria’s 2019 summer tourism season was ‘good’ – Tourism Minister
Bulgaria’s 2019 summer season was good and saw gains in a number of markets despite increased international competition, Tourism Minister
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