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Sofia Municipality takes a 50 million euro loan for street and pavement repairs

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An agreement for an investment loan of 50 million euros was signed between Sofia Municipality and the European Investment Bank, BNR's Evelina Stoyanova reports. The funds will be used for the repair and construction of 690,000 square metres of pavements in the capital. 

"In this way, we will build more comfortable, more accessible sidewalks in all the districts of Sofia. This is in fact the biggest investment we have made in the uptown districts," Mayor Yordanka Fandakova explained.




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