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Month: May 2018

Bulgaria 

ADL slams controversial ‘Country of Rescued Jews’ exhibition and Bulgarian Deputy PM Simeonov’s comments

May 20, 2018May 22, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has slammed the controversial “Country of the Rescued Jews” exhibition, and comments by Bulgarian Deputy Prime

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv European Capital of Culture 2019 advertised on buses in Rome

May 20, 2018May 24, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Buses in Italy’s capital city Rome are carrying advertising promoting the fact that Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv will be European

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Bulgaria World 

Mladenov: First task at the moment is to prevent a new war in the Middle East

May 19, 2018May 24, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Israel, Nikolai Mladenov

The priority for the international community now is to prevent a new war in the Middle East, UN Special Envoy

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Black Sea city Varna officially opens 2018 summer season

May 19, 2018May 24, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff tourism, Varna

The 2018 summer seaside holiday season was officially opened in Bulgaria’s largest Black Sea city Varna on May 19. Varna

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Bulgaria 

FDI in Bulgaria in Q1 2018 was 179.1M euro

May 19, 2018June 20, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first three months of 2018 stood at 179.1 million euro, the equivalent of

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Bulgaria 

EU officials could see 16+1 Summit in Bulgaria in July 2018 as ‘Trojan Horse for China’ – report

May 19, 2018May 24, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

It is not just Russia that makes Brussels feel sick and have a headache. There is China, too, whose influence

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev to hold talks with Putin in Sochi on May 22

May 18, 2018May 20, 2018 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Roumen Radev, Russia

Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev will hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sochi on the second

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Europe 

‘Macedonia’ name dispute: ‘Ilinden Macedonian Republic’ discussed as solution, reports say

May 18, 2018May 20, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria EU presidency, Greece, Macedonia

The day after Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his counterpart from Skopje, Zoran Zaev, held talks in Sofia, with

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Perspectives 

Nord Stream ΙΙ vs US shale gas: When Washington provokes Brussels

May 18, 2018May 18, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency energy

The American administration is openly provoking the institutional functioning of the EU and the free will of each member country,

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