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Bulgaria Budget deficit for January-February at 130M leva – preliminary figures

March 2, 2015March 5, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has said that it expected the consolidated Budget deficit January-February 2015 to stand at 130 million leva,

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Bulgaria 

Unemployment in Bulgaria, EU continues easing

March 2, 2015March 5, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat, macroeconomic indicators

Unemployment in Bulgaria is continuing to ease, falling to 10.8 per cent in January 2015 compared to 12.6 per cent

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Bulgaria, European, US leaders condemn murder of Russian opposition politician Nemtsov

February 28, 2015March 4, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Russia

Bulgaria sharply condemns the murder of prominent Russian opposition leader and former deputy prime minister Boris Nemtsov, Foreign Minister Daniel

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General defends probe into Protest Network activists

February 27, 2015March 4, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Media, Peevski protests

Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has sought to defend the investigation, including a tax probe, into four activists from the Protest

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Bulgaria 

Overcast skies, fog forecast for Bulgaria’s holiday weekend

February 27, 2015March 2, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

The first weekend of spring in Bulgaria – which will stretch to four days given the celebrations of Liberation Day

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Borissov government keeps ringing the changes in top posts

February 27, 2015March 4, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgaria’s centre-right coalition cabinet is continuing the process of personnel changes in top posts, this time appointing a new head

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Bulgaria 

EC steps up infringement proceedings against Bulgaria concerning drivers licences, rail safety

February 27, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

The European Commission has sent reasoned opinions to Bulgarian authorities in three infringement proceedings for failure to fully transpose EU

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Bulgaria 

Purvanov says he will resign as leader of his party over its turnabout on foreign borrowing

February 26, 2015February 28, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Georgi Purvanov

Georgi Purvanov said on February 26 that he would resign as leader of his ABC party, a day after some

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President says will not veto Cabinet’s new debt plan

February 26, 2015February 27, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has said he would not veto the bill passed by Parliament on February 25, which ratified

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