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Month: July 2018

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria ‘opens’ Black Sea for new oil exploration

July 11, 2018July 11, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency energy

Bulgaria looks ready to follow Romania’s example, emphasising and paving the way for new drilling in the Black Sea and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria appoints Atanas Krastin as new ambassador to Russia

July 10, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Russia

Atanas Krastin will replace Boiko Kotsev as Bulgaria’s ambassador to Russia, with the presidential decree appointing Krastin published in the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Foreign Minister: Berlin Process will speed European integration of Western Balkans

July 10, 2018July 12, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

The Berlin Process will accelerate the European integration of the Western Balkans, and complements and does not replace the European

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Europe 

Nato desperate to avoid rerun of disastrous G7 summit

July 10, 2018July 10, 2018 Deutsche Welle Nato

The US president told a Montana campaign rally last week he’s coming to “tell NATO: ‘You’ve got to start paying

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Europe 

European Medicines Agency acts after impurity found in Chinese-supplied medicine

July 10, 2018July 10, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said that it is reviewing medicines containing the active substance valsartan that is supplied by Zhejiang Huahai

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Europe 

House prices in the EU up 11% since 2010 – Eurostat

July 10, 2018July 10, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

House prices rose by 11 per cent in the European Union between 2010 and 2017 and six per cent in

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Europe 

Skopje awaits an invitation from Nato

July 10, 2018July 10, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia, Nato

While Nato starts a summit on July 10 in Brussels, government authorities in Skopje say that they are sure that

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s highest state honour awarded to Israeli author Professor Michael Bar-Zohar

July 10, 2018July 10, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews, Israel

At a ceremony in Sofia, Bulgarian President Roumen Radev conferred on Israeli historian and author Professor Michael Bar-Zohar the country’s

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Bulgaria World 

US Sixth Fleet’s USS Mount Whitney enters Black Sea

July 9, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

The United States’ Sixth Fleet’s command and control ship USS Mount Whitney has entered the Black Sea at the weekend,

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