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Bulgaria picks Saudi firm Arkad for gas grid capacity expansion

April 3, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency energy

Gas grid operator Bulgartransgaz said on April 3 that it picked Saudi Arabian Arkad Engineering and Constructions Company to design

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian motorist fined 1350 leva for driving at 277km/h on motorway

April 3, 2019April 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

A motorist driving a Sofia-registered car has been fined 1350 leva (about 690 euro) for driving at 277km/h on the

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Bulgaria 

Aircraft crashes in North Macedonia, Bulgarian family of four dies

April 3, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

A Cessna PN210N  light aircraft crashed on April 2 in the Jakupica mountain range in North Macedonia. Authorities said that

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President calls security council meeting on steps against corruption in high places

April 3, 2019April 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev has called a meeting of the Consultative Council on National Security for April

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Bulgaria 

Two bids submitted to build Bulgaria-Greece gas inter-connector pipeline

April 2, 2019May 14, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Greece

Two candidates have submitted bids to design and build the gas inter-connector pipeline between Bulgaria and Greece, which project company

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Tourism Ministry launches ‘pay for two nights, get one free’ campaign

April 2, 2019April 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Tourism is calling on the country’s hotel industry to join its campaign by which tourists will get

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry: Crime in Sofia down close to 10% in 2018

April 2, 2019April 3, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The number of criminal offences registered in Sofia in 2018 was 9.7 per cent lower than the year before, Bulgaria’s

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Bulgaria 

Head of Bulgaria’s anti-corruption commission given bodyguards after threats

April 2, 2019April 4, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency

National Protection Service bodyguards have been assigned to the head of Bulgaria’s anti-corruption commission, Plamen Georgiev, after threats against him

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Bulgaria 

Alpha Research poll: Apartments controversy damaged trust in Bulgaria’s government, GERB party

April 1, 2019April 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Kornelia Ninova, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s government has an approval rating of just 13 per cent, having shed four percentage points

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