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Unemployment in Bulgaria was 4.5% in July 2019 – Eurostat

August 30, 2019September 2, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Unemployment in Bulgaria was 4.5 per cent in July 2019, the same percentage it has been every month since April

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Bulgaria 

Brexit: £3 million grant for charities, voluntary organisations to help UK nationals in EU

August 30, 2019September 2, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Brexit

The British government is providing up to £3 million in grant funding for charities and other voluntary organisations who will

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Bulgaria 

Polish Institute in Sofia to screen Battle of Britain film to mark 80th anniversary of start of Second World War

August 30, 2019August 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The Polish Institute in Sofia is to screen the 2018 film Squadron 303 on September 3 to mark the 80th

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria sends first of eight Su-25 aircraft to Belarus for overhaul

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria has sent the first of a total of eight Soviet-era Su-25 military aircraft to Belarus for overhauling and retrofitting,

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Bulgaria’s tax agency fined 5.1M leva for data breach – watchdog

August 29, 2019September 1, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Commission for Personal Data Protection will impose a fine of 5.1 million leva (about 2.6 million euro) on the

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Bulgaria 

Five Bulgarian Food Safety Agency officials face corruption charges

August 29, 2019August 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Five officials at the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency regional directorate in the Black Sea district of Bourgas, including the head

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Plovdiv holding ‘River Feast’ event on September 1

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Plovdiv, European Capital of Culture 2019, is holding a “River Feast” event on September 1, with a fireworks-music-and-light show, musical

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian sappers to destroy corroded artillery shell found in Tvarditsa

August 28, 2019August 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

In the latest incident in recent days involving the finding of unexploded old munitions in Bulgaria, a highly corroded 122m

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian lender Banka DSK fined 1M leva for data breach

August 28, 2019September 1, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s commission for personal data protection said on August 28 that it had fined Banka DSK, the country’s second-largest lender

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