Bulgarian Parliament drops Belene off nuclear referendum question
Bulgarian MPs approved on October 24 the wording of the question for the plebiscite on the future of nuclear energy
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Business
Bulgaria loses ground in World Bank’s Doing Business report
Bulgaria fell two spots in the World Bank’s annual Doing Business report, ranking 66th out of 195 countries surveyed, losing
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Reactor at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear plant taken offline
Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear power plant took one of its nuclear reactors offline on October 23 after mechanical failure shut down
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Plans aplenty, but little certainty for nuclear power in Eastern Europe
The proposed nuclear power plant at Belene has dominated public discourse in Bulgaria in recent weeks and with good reason,
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Search engine Google says profits fall
Internet search giant Google says its profits declined 20 percent in the last three months, which prompted a sharp sell-off
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Bulgaria think-tank presents leaner Budget alternative
A week after the Cabinet approved the 2013 Budget bill, Sofia-based think-tank Institute for Market Economics (IME) presented on October
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Bulgaria approves electric, hybrid cars incentives plan
Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on October 17 a plan meant to stimulate the sale and production of electric and hybrid cars,
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Bulgaria mulls further capital gains taxes
Amid the relentless barrage of criticism being levelled at Bulgaria’s Cabinet for its plans to introduce a tax on deposit
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Citigroup’s chief executive resigns
The chief executive of Citigroup, one of the world’s largest financial institutions, has unexpectedly resigned. Vikram Pandit, who led the
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