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Bulgaria’s competition watchdog fines electricity distributors 1.17M leva over access to utility poles

June 2, 2015June 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on June 2 that it has fined the country’s three electricity distribution

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Bulgaria 

Garmen protesters in failed bid to break police cordon at Roma neighbourhood

June 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

A group of protesters in Garmen municipality made a failed attempt to break through a police cordon guarding the Roma

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Bulgaria 

Teenager found stabbed to death in Sofia’s Borissova Gradina

June 2, 2015June 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Police in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia are investigating after the body of a 16-year-old boy was found on a bench

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Bulgaria 

Hundreds protest in Garmen against illegal construction, Roma

June 2, 2015June 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Hundreds of residents of Garmen municipality, joined by bikers and politicians from elsewhere in the country, held a protest on

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Bulgaria 

Sirens to sound in Bulgaria on June 2 2015 to honour memory of Hristo Botev

June 1, 2015May 30, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Across Bulgaria, sirens will sound at noon on June 2 2015 in an annual custom honouring the memory of revolutionary,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria joins in annual EU traffic police campaign against drink-driving

June 1, 2015June 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

From June 1 to 7, Bulgarian traffic police will test motorists for alcohol, narcotic and psychotropic substances, as part of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria Budget surplus swells to 1.07B leva in April

June 1, 2015June 3, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has said that the consolidated Budget surplus grew to 1.07 billion leva, or 1.3 per cent of

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Bulgaria 

PM: Bulgarian govt spent six months on urgent problems, now looking at the longer term

June 1, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, IMF, World Bank

Bulgaria’s government is working to ensure political stability in Bulgaria and improving the country’s international reputation, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov

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Bulgaria’s summer 2015 seaside tourist season officially opens

June 1, 2015June 3, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Bourgas, tourism, Varna

Bulgaria’s Black Sea tourism season 2015 officially opened on June 1. At the central beach in Bourgas, the city on

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