Bulgaria backtracks on ban on land ownership by non-EU companies
Bulgarian legislators have taken the first step to retreating from a controversial law approved in February 2015 providing for huge
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Archaeology: Excavations of Plovdiv’s Great Basilica to begin within weeks
Excavations of Plovdiv’s Great Basilica, the largest early Christian church found in Bulgaria and among the largest in South Eastern
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Sofia to Athens: Implement a drastic austerity programme
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said Thursday that “the time has come” for Greece to take his country as an example,
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Bulgarian PM: We will insist on financial support for the gas interconnector with Greece
Bulgaria will insist that the gas hub be included in the plans of the European Commission on financial support for
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Israel to assist Bulgaria’s agriculture sector, food exports
Israel is to assist Bulgaria in the revival of its agricultural sector and is to seek the best Bulgarian food
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Lufthansa pilot strike to affect eight Sofia flights on March 20
A total of eight direct flights between Sofia and the German airports of Frankfurt and Munich on March 20 have
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Mixed views on prospects for Bulgaria’s summer tourism season
Bulgaria will have a very difficult summer tourism season because of an expected decrease in Russian and Ukrainian tourists, but
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Bulgarian – American working groups hold first meeting
The inaugural meeting of the US-Bulgaria Working Groups established during secretary of state John Kerry’s January 15 visit to Bulgaria
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Plovdiv – Smolyan road partly re-opened as landslide clearing continues
The section of the road between Assenovgrad and Smolyan, blocked five days previously by a huge landslide, had been partly
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