Unions threaten strike over Bulgarian state railways cutbacks
Bulgarian state railways BDZ is to cancel 38 trains from January 12, with further cuts planned from February 1, and
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US secretary of state John Kerry to visit Bulgaria on January 15 – reports
US Secretary of State John Kerry is to visit Bulgaria on January 15 2015, according to Bulgarian-language media reports. Plans
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Bulgarian media express solidarity with Charlie Hebdo
A demonstration by staff of Bulgarian National Television outside the public broadcaster’s Sofia head office on January 8 2015 was
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Demo to be held in Sofia in solidarity with Charlie Hebdo and freedom of speech
Residents of Sofia have been invited by the Association of Francophone Journalists to attend a gathering to express condolences and
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French ambassador to Bulgaria: This was an attack on freedom of speech
The attack on Charlie Hebdo was an attack on freedom of speech, against one of the basic freedoms, French ambassador
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Electricity companies kept to rules on billing periods – energy minister
Checks of energy distribution companies had established that in more than 99 per cent of cases, the companies kept to
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Bulgarian cabinet returns former head of refugee agency to post
Bulgaria’s cabinet has returned Nikola Kazakov, who headed the State Agency for Refugees from 2010 to 2013, to the post
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Bulgaria’s government debt at 23.1% of GDP in November 2014
Bulgaria’s total government debt reached 9.6 billion euro at the end of November 2014, or 23.1 per cent of gross
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Man arrested after attempted arson of Plovdiv mosque
Police in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv arrested a 31-year-old man who attempted an arson attack on the city’s historic Dzhumaya mosque. The
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