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Day: March 26, 2018

Bulgaria 

EU – Turkey leaders’ meeting in Varna: No agreements, but ‘readiness to keep up dialogue’

March 26, 2018March 28, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian EU Presidency, Turkey, Varna

As was expected, the March 26 meeting in Bulgarian Black Sea city Varna between the leaders of the European Union

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Perspectives 

ECFR: The discreet charm of hypocrisy: An EU-Turkey Power Audit

March 26, 2018March 28, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian EU Presidency, Turkey

A policy brief by the European Council on Foreign Relations: Addressing a press conference in Paris in January 2018, Turkish

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Europe 

Many EU nations join US in expelling Russian diplomats

March 26, 2018March 27, 2018 Jamie Dettmer of VOANews Russia

Several European Union countries joined the US on March 26 in expelling dozens of Russian diplomats in a coordinated retaliation

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Europe 

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee delivers 20 tons of matzah in Eastern Europe, former Soviet Union for Passover

March 26, 2018March 28, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

This Passover, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) will continue its century-plus tradition of delivering matzah to needy Jews

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Bulgaria 

Idea of Turkey – EU Varna summit is ‘great’, Tusk tells Bulgarian PM Borissov

March 26, 2018March 27, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian EU Presidency, Roumen Radev, Turkey, Varna

European Council President Donald Tusk has told Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov that his idea of holding the EU -Turkey

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Bulgaria 

EU eyes on Varna

March 26, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian EU Presidency, Turkey, Varna

All eyes are on Varna, the Bulgarian city where the EU-Turkey summit will take place.  Only a few days after

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Bulgaria 

UNHCR poll: Almost half of Bulgarians agree that refugees could integrate successfully in Bulgarian society

March 26, 2018March 28, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Europe migrant crisis, Refugees

Almost half of Bulgaria’s population agree that refugees could integrate successfully in Bulgarian society, according to a poll commissioned by

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Bulgaria 

Refugee centres in Bulgaria have 17% occupancy – state agency head

March 26, 2018March 27, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Refugees

Occupancy in refugee centres in Bulgaria is 17 per cent, with about 850 people accommodated, the head of the State

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian capital Sofia holds training exercise to test response to earthquake crisis

March 26, 2018March 26, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Bulgarian capital city Sofia is holding a two-day exercise on March 26 and 27 to test the response of emergency

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