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Will Bulgaria bet against the house in the European Commission stakes?

July 16, 2014 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov, European Commission, Kristian Vigenin

In the hours ahead of the July 16 meeting of European Union leaders to discuss top posts in the new

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Bulgaria 

Emergency declared in Bulgarian Black Sea resort Primorsko after heavy rains cause flooding

July 16, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

A state of emergency was declared in the Bulgarian Black Sea summer holiday resort town of Primorsko on July 16

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Budget revision, CCB situation, ‘not to affect’ timetable for departure of parliament, cabinet

July 15, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

The agreement that Bulgaria’s current national Budget needs to be revised will not affect the timing of the dissolving of

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Bulgaria 

Costs mount from Bulgaria’s June floods, Sofia July hailstorm

July 15, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia, Varna, Varna floods, Veliko Turnovo

Sofia municipality has put in a claim for a million leva (about 500 000 euro) for cleaning critical infrastructure after

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Bulgaria 

Barekov had highest income among Bulgaria’s new MEPs – declarations

July 15, 2014July 15, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff European Parliament

Nikolai Barekov, the former talk show host who leads the populist Bulgaria Without Censorship (BWC) party, is shown by his

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Bulgaria 

Former Ukrainian president Yanukovych owns 20ha of land on Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast – report

July 15, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Ukraine

Former Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych owns a total of 20 hectares of land in popular seaside resort areas along Bulgaria’s

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to join EU banking union in wake of CCB collapse

July 14, 2014July 31, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff CCB affair, Rossen Plevneliev

Bulgaria’s political parties agreed on July 14 to launch proceedings to join the EU’s single supervisory mechanism of the European

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv court orders district mayor removed from office pending trial on corruption allegations

July 14, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Plovdiv Regional Court on July 14 order central district mayor Raina Petrova removed from office pending her trial in connection

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Bulgaria 

Sofia court releases Corporate Commercial Bank executive director on bail

July 14, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

At a hearing that lasted about nine hours until about 2am on July 14, Sofia City Court ordered Corporate Commercial

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