World Bank: Bulgaria’s health system could do more while cutting out-of-pocket spending
The Bulgarian health care system could achieve much higher value-for-money while reducing out-of-pocket spending, according to World Bank experts. The
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Debt collectors, removal firm and police raid Bulgaria’s TV7, News7 to seize equipment
Bulgaria’s TV7 and News 7 channels were raided on April 29 by debt collectors and removal firm staff accompanied by
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Bulgaria to join project on boosting capacity to manage migration in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq
Bulgaria’s cabinet is to ask Parliament to ratify an agreement on a project intended to strengthen capacity to manage migration
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Bulgaria to seek 7M leva in assets from former deputy Parliament Speaker
Bulgaria’s asset forfeiture commission will seek to recoup in court more than seven million leva worth of assets from the
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Plevneliev hopeful gas supply from Azerbaijan will start earlier than planned
Meeting his Azjerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliyev, Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has voiced hope that supplies of natural gas of a
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Bulgarian PM Borissov rejects calls for cabinet changes
Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on April 28 that no changes to his cabinet were required, a comment coming a
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Head of Bulgaria’s Border Police demoted – reports
The head of Bulgaria’s Border Police, Milen Penev, has been demoted, public broadcaster Bulgarian National Radio said on April 28.
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National Audit Office to probe membership fee income of Siderov’s Ataka
Bulgaria’s National Audit Office is to investigate the income declared to be from membership fees of Volen Siderov’s ultra-nationalist minority
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Bulgaria fires 25 customs officers
A total of 25 Bulgarian Customs Agency employees at the Kapitan Andreevo border checkpoint with Turkey are being fired, with
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