Bulgaria faces week of thunderstorms after heavy rains inundate Plovdiv, Haskovo
Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv was mopping up on June 3 after a second round of torrential rain inundated the city,
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Bulgaria’s 2019 European elections: 3.2M leva spent on paid media coverage
Parties, coalitions and independent candidates that stood in Bulgaria’s May 26 2019 European Parliament elections spent a total of more
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Standard&Poor’s affirms Bulgaria’s credit rating, outlook positive
S&P Global Ratings affirmed its long- and short-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Bulgaria at ‘BBB-/A-3’. The outlook remains
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Respects paid to victims of communist prison camp at Bulgaria’s Belene
The Speaker of Bulgaria’s National Assembly, Tsveta Karayancheva, was among those who paid their respects at a June 1 ceremony
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Bulgaria’s road death toll in first five months of 2019 was 180 – Interior Ministry
A total of 180 people died in road accidents in Bulgaria between January 1 and midnight on May 31 2019,
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Bulgaria among lowest in EU in households with children
Twenty-six per cent of households in Bulgaria had children living in them in 2018, the fifth-lowest percentage in the European
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Bulgaria January-April 2019 Budget surplus at 2.7B leva
Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has said that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first four months of 2019 was 2.7 billion
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Bulgaria buys 140M cubic metres of LNG, first shipment arrives in Greece
The first shipment of liquefied natural gas (LNG), part of a 140 million cubic metres purchase by Bulgarian state-owned gas
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Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission announces names of elected MEPs
Bulgaria’s Central Election Commission announced on May 31 the names of the MEPs voted into office in the European Parliament
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