S&P cuts Bulgaria’s rating over political environment, weak growth
Credit ratings agency Standard & Poor’s cut Bulgaria’s sovereign debt rating to BBB-, saying that it expected the structural institutional
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Bulgaria annual deflation rises to 2.0% in May
Bulgaria’s consumer price index shrank again in May, by 0.5 per cent, pushing the annual deflation figure at the end
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Bulgaria reports negative trade balance with EU, third countries
Bulgaria reported a negative foreign trade balance of more than 1.1 billion leva with other European Union countries for January
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Lithuania ready to adopt euro, Bulgaria still falls short – EC convergence report
The European Commission released its latest euro area convergence report on June 4, assessing the readiness of EU member states
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EC opens infringement proceedings against Bulgaria over South Stream
The European Commission has formally launched infringement proceedings against Bulgaria over its choice of a contractor to build the land
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Bulgaria state utility NEK posts record loss in 2013 – report
Bulgaria’s state electricity utility NEK posted a loss of 338 million leva (about 172.8 million euro) in 2013, mass circulation
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Bulgarian regulator approves major newspaper sale deal
Bulgaria’s Commission on Protection of Competition (CPC) has ruled to allow the sale of seven newspaper-publishing companies from New Bulgarian
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Bulgarian regulator asks for lower electricity prices from US-owned power plants
Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) has asked state-owned electricity utility NEK to begin talks with two coal-powered
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Bulgaria competition watchdog fines Veolia unit 4.8M leva
Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on May 29 that it fined Sofiyska Voda, the water utility in
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