The new year started grimly for smokers in Bulgaria as the excise tax for cigarettes was increased in January 2016. While local tobacco players suddenly became less competitive, the international companies used the situation as a chance to strengthen…
          Follow @SarahBoumphrey Croatia will join the EU on July 1st 2013. Those that joined in 2004 (Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia) saw on the whole stronger GDP…