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Bulgaria utilities regulator rules out further electricity price hike delay

July 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff energy

The head of Bulgaria’s utilities regulator has rejected renewed calls from industrial consumers demanding to postpone electricity price hikes until

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President makes case for national referendum

July 28, 2015July 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

There is no more powerful tool to increase citizens’ confidence than a referendum, Bulgarian head of state President Rossen Plevneliev

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Thracian sword at Bulgaria’s Perperikon among finds in July

July 28, 2015May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Archaeologists working at the ancient sacred site of Perperikon in Bulgaria have found four silver coins from the time of

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Bulgaria 

Divers recover helicopter that crashed into sea near Bulgaria’s Tsarevo

July 26, 2015July 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

A light helicopter that crashed into the sea at Tsarevo on Bulgaria’s southern Black Sea coast has been recovered from

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Bulgaria 

Fire in Bulgaria’s Rila National Park brought under control

July 26, 2015July 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Firefighters were continuing to their efforts to extinguish the blaze in Bulgaria’s Rila National Park on July 26 after bringing

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Bulgaria 

President: We will not rest until those behind Bourgas Airport terrorist attack face justice

July 24, 2015July 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas terrorist attack, Rossen Plevneliev

None of us will rest until those who have committed, as well as those whose motivated and organised the Sarafovo

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Bulgaria 

Deal on constitutional changes towards judicial reform ‘a first step’

July 24, 2015July 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

The July 23 agreement among Bulgarian political parties on reforms of the judicial system is a “first step”, according to

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Bulgaria 

Private equity investor pulls out of Vivacom deal in Bulgaria

July 24, 2015July 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Belgian private equity investor Pierre Louvrier, who claimed to have entered an agreement to buy 43 per cent in Bulgarian

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Podcast: Groovy and liveable – Plovdiv, European Capital of Culture 2019

July 24, 2015May 10, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria Now Podcast, Lance Nelson, Plovdiv, podcasts

On its way to its place as European Capital of Culture 2019, Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv is quite the happening

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