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Torrential rains in Bulgaria cause landslides, transport problems

June 3, 2019June 3, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Traffic was disrupted on the road between Assenovgrad and Smolyan in the Plovdiv district on June 3 as a result

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Bulgaria faces week of thunderstorms after heavy rains inundate Plovdiv, Haskovo

June 3, 2019June 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv was mopping up on June 3 after a second round of torrential rain inundated the city,

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Bulgaria’s 2019 European elections: 3.2M leva spent on paid media coverage

June 2, 2019June 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian European elections 2019, Media

Parties, coalitions and independent candidates that stood in Bulgaria’s May 26 2019 European Parliament elections spent a total of more

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Standard&Poor’s affirms Bulgaria’s credit rating, outlook positive

June 1, 2019June 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

S&P Global Ratings affirmed its long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Bulgaria at ‘BBB-/A-3’. The outlook remains

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Respects paid to victims of communist prison camp at Bulgaria’s Belene

June 1, 2019June 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The Speaker of Bulgaria’s National Assembly, Tsveta Karayancheva, was among those who paid their respects at a June 1 ceremony

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Bulgaria’s road death toll in first five months of 2019 was 180 – Interior Ministry

June 1, 2019June 3, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

A total of 180 people died in road accidents in Bulgaria between January 1 and midnight on May 31 2019,

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Bulgaria among lowest in EU in households with children

June 1, 2019June 1, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Twenty-six per cent of households in Bulgaria had children living in them in 2018, the fifth-lowest percentage in the European

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Bulgaria January-April 2019 Budget surplus at 2.7B leva

May 31, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has said that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first four months of 2019 was 2.7 billion

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Bulgaria buys 140M cubic metres of LNG, first shipment arrives in Greece

May 31, 2019June 3, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff energy

The first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG), part of a 140 million cubic metres purchase by Bulgarian state-owned gas

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