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Month: April 2018

Bulgaria 

Plaque commemorating Dupnitsa’s aid for Jews bound for Holocaust unveiled at railway station

April 18, 2018April 18, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

A commemorative plaque has been unveiled at Dupnitsa railway station in Bulgaria, paying tribute to the people of the town

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs extend term of ad hoc parliamentary committee on CEZ assets sale

April 18, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted on April 18 to extend the term of the ad hoc parliamentary committee tasked with investigating

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry welcomes European Commission’s EU enlargement package

April 18, 2018April 19, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Albania, Macedonia

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry is “particularly pleased” with the European Commission’s recommendations to start EU accession talks with Skopje and Tirana,

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Bulgaria 

Co-operation agreement between Bulgarian State Archives and Yad Vashem extended

April 18, 2018April 19, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Israel

Bulgaria’s government has approved the extension by three years of a co-operation agreement between the Archives State Agency and the

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Bulgaria 

Maltese government agrees to pay for repatriation of body of Bulgarian-born bus crash victim from Malta to Spain

April 18, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Organisers of an online petition have issued thanks to supporters after the government of Malta agreed to the petition’s call

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian average income rose by 8.1% in 2017, household spending by 9.7% – statistics institute

April 18, 2018April 19, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

The annual total income average per capita in Bulgaria was 5586 leva (about 2856 euro) in 2017, an increase of

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Bulgaria 

Sofia district mayor arrested in public law enforcement operation

April 17, 2018April 19, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The mayor of Sofia’s Mladost district Dessislava Ivancheva was arrested on April 17 at one of the busiest intersections in

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Europe 

European Commission recommends opening accession talks with Macedonia, Albania

April 17, 2018April 18, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Albania, European Commission, Macedonia

The European Commission said on April 17 that it was recommending that the Council of the EU decides to open

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Europe 

‘2025 is ambitious for Western Balkans to join EU’

April 17, 2018April 17, 2018 Deutsche Welle

Tensions in the Western Balkans can only be overcome if all countries in the region join the European Union, says

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