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GlobalStar Travel Management Adds new Partners in South Africa and Bulgaria
LONDON, March 8, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --We are pleased to announce that Club Corporate Travel in South Africa and Europatour Pro in Bulgaria joined GlobalStar Travel Management from 1 st March 2012. Club ...
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Bulgaria Moves to Bring Back Historical Treasures from Abroad
Bulgaria is launching a campaign to bring back some of its illegally exported historical treasures from abroad, the country's Culture Minister Vezhdi Rashidov has announced. The Bulgarian government is currently working towards recovering 160 valuable icons from Italy. In 2009, a total of 2200 artifacts that had been illegally exported to Italy were successfully sent back to the country. ...
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Bulgaria Rises Against EU Vine Liberalization
Bulgaria has declared its opposition to the liberalization of vine planting rights in the European Union that is scheduled to begin from 2016. Thus, the Balkan country has become the 15th EU member state to the planned liberalization after Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Hungary, Austria, Romania, Luxembourg, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Greece and Slovenia. In 2007, the ...
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Bulgaria's Industrial Production Sees 3.6% Drop Jan 2012 Y/Y
Bulgaria's working day-adjusted industrial production index decreased by 3.6% in January 2012 year on year, the country's National Statistical Institute has informed. According to the Institute's seasonally adjusted preliminary data, Bulgaria's industrial production decreased by 0....
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Bulgaria's Drastic Egg Prices Won't Fall - Ag Minister
Bulgaria's egg prices that skyrocketed over the course of some ten day will not immediately fall, according to the country's Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naydenov. However, the Minister reckons that the prices will not be increased further. "Many egg dealers received calls yesterday from egg producers, who told them that prices will be kept as they are and will not be falling....
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Bulgaria January Industrial Production Falls
Bulgaria's industrial production in January declined from a year ago, data from the National Statistical Institute showed Wednesday.
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Bulgaria's Plovdiv Moves to Reveal Roman Forum
Bulgaria's second largest city of Plovdiv will invest BGN 100 000 into making the western portion of its Roman forum visible, it has been revealed. The further excavation of the edifice is expected to kick off in May. If necessary, the project may receive further financing, Plovdiv Mayor Ivan Totev has told the Bulgarian National Radio. ...
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Bulgaria Retail Sales Fall In January
Bulgaria's retail sales declined in January after rising in the previous month, data from the National Statistical Institute showed Wednesday.
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Bulgaria, Europe Wake up without Facebook
Bulgaria and the entire Old Continent woke up Wednesday without Facebook. Between 9 and 10 am the 2 million Bulgarian Facebook users had no access to the Facebook site, even though some reported having such access, and others ? that there were frequent interruptions. Users across Europe, from Germany, the UK, Ireland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Greece, Turkey and Russia, among others, have alarmed ...
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Bulgaria Moves toward E-Govt with Paper-Free Foreign Min
Bulgaria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has become the country's first paper-free ministry by discarded all paper document flow, it announced Tuesday. "The move to e-administration in the future is inexorable and there is no point in resisting this," Bulgarian Foreign Minister Nikolay Mladenov Tuesday Mladenov presented the new electronic documentation system of the Foreign Affairs Ministry ...
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Bulgaria to Boast Illegal Asset Forfeiture Law by Easter
Amendments to the long-delayed bill authorizing widespread confiscation of illegally obtained assets are expected to be conclusively adopted by Bulgaria's parliament by Easter. "We are currently between the first and second reading of the bill. We have made proposals for changes to some of the texts, but the general concept remains the same....
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Austria's EVN Moves to Delist Bulgaria Units
Austria's EVN AG plans to delist its two units in Bulgaria just two months after the trade with their shares started on the local stock exchange. This becomes clear from a tender offer the Austrian group published in local Capital daily for the acquisition of the remaining shareholders shares. "After all legal requirements have been met, EVN plans to request the delisting of the two units from ...
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Bulgaria?s Economy Grows by 1.7% in 2011
Bulgaria's GDP in 2011 was EUR 38.5 B, which means a 1.7% growth as compared with 2010, the country's National Statistical Institute has informed. ...
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Bulgaria to Fine 4 Fuel Retailers over Price Cartel - Report
Bulgaria's anti-trust regulator has decided to slap fines on four major fuel retailers for conspiring to increase fuel prices, according to local media reports. The Commission for Protection of Competition launched the probe in the summer of 2011, encompassing Lukoil Bulgaria, Naftex Petrol, Rompetrol and OMV, 24 Hours daily reported, citing a document by the regulatory body that it has obtained ...
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Bulgaria Sets Analogue Switch-Off Deadline at Sept, 2013
The analogue switch-off in Bulgaria has been scheduled to be wrapped up by September 1, 2013, the transport ministry announced. The digital dividend proposals adopted by the European Commission in 2010 asked EU member states to speed up the switch-off of analogue TV and to complete it by 1 January 2012, but Bulgaria failed to meet that deadline. Five countries - Finland, Germany, Luxemburg, the ...
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Bulgaria Govt Confirms Plans for VAT Cut by Mid-2013
Bulgaria's government has voiced, yet again, its willingness to lower the 20% value-added-tax by the end of its term, which expires next year. "The VAT level is likely to be changed at the end of 2012 or the beginning of 2013," Bulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Simeon Djankov, told the morning broadcast of Nova TV on Tuesday. The news comes as Croatia and Cyprus increased ...
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Bulgaria, China Ink Partial Visa Exemption Deal
Bulgaria and China have signed an intergovernmental agreement on mutual exemption of visa requirement for holders of diplomatic and service passports. The deal will allow Chinese holders of Schengen visas to enter Bulgaria, the Bulgarian National television has informed. "For Bulgaria, the partnership with the People's Republic of China is crucial, I would say not only for the region of Asia but ...
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Mladenov returns to CSKA Sofia again
SOFIA (Reuters) - Former Bulgaria coach Stoycho Mladenov is to return for a third stint as coach of CSKA Sofia, the Bulgarian club said on Monday. "Mladenov is a coach who won the title in his previous spells at CSKA and we hope he'll continue to be as successful," CSKA's majority holder Dimitar Borisov told reporters. "Last time he won it by a 16-point margin." Mladenov will replace Dimitar ...
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Stoycho Mladenov to coach CSKA Sofia for 3rd time
Former Bulgaria coach Stoycho Mladenov is returning to lead CSKA Sofia for a third time. The 54-year-old Mladenov coached CSKA to two league titles in 2003 and 2008, following a brief stint as Bulgaria coach in 2000-2001. Mladenov replaces Dimitar Penev, who was appointed chairman of the club. CSKA has won the Bulgarian league 31 times and is third in the standings this season, three points ...
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Bulgaria's Ex EU Commissioner Ranks in Top 3 of Most Trusted Politicians - Poll
Bulgaria's center-right ruling party GERB is gradually losing support but still retains its advantage over its political rivals, according to a poll conducted by Alpha Research at the end of February. If the trend persists, the issue of GERB's coalition partner will occupy center stage in the period leading up to the parliamentary elections, the pollsters argue. Alfa Research's poll, conducted ...
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