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Greece’s Prime Minister announces abolition of capital controls

August 26, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on August 26 the complete abolition of capital controls. “In co-operation with the Bank

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Europe 

Six tourists dead after violent storm hits Greece’s Halkidiki peninsula

July 11, 2019July 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

Six foreign tourists died and about 60 people were injured after a violent storm hit the Halkidiki peninsula in northern

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM congratulates Mitsotakis on landslide victory in Greece’s elections

July 8, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov telephoned the leader of Greece’s centre-right New Democracy party, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, to congratulate him on

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Europe 

Greece’s elections: Mitsotakis’s New Democracy wins by landslide

July 8, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

With more than 92 per cent of votes counted in the early hours of Monday morning, the conservative New Democracy

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Bulgaria 

Interior Ministry takes steps to ease traffic at Bulgaria-Greece Kulata checkpoint

July 5, 2019July 7, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Greece, tourism

Five lanes will opened to ease the passage of cars from Bulgaria to Greece at the Kulata border checkpoint this

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Border Police: Flow of cars through Kulata to Greece 25% higher than last year

June 30, 2019July 2, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Greece, tourism

The flow of cars through the Kulata border checkpoint to Greece is 25 per cent higher than at this time

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria, Greece start European project to deal with flood risks in cross-border area

June 13, 2019June 15, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Bulgaria and Greece are launching a European Union-funded project to jointly deal with flood risks in districts adjoining the countries’

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Europe 

Greek Prime Minister Tsipras calls early general election after MEP vote result

May 27, 2019May 27, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras revealed his intention to call an early general election, after the end of the second

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria increases patrols at borders as migrants try to reach North Macedonia from Greece

April 5, 2019April 8, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Greece, Macedonia, Refugees, Turkey

Bulgaria has strengthened its border patrols and is ready to implement a crisis management plan, Interior Minister Mladen Marinov told

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