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Month: March 2019

Bulgaria 

Smallest party in Bulgaria’s Parliament ends ‘boycott’

March 20, 2019March 20, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Six days after the smallest party in Bulgaria’s National Assembly announced that it was withdrawing from sittings, it ended the

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Europe 

Karadzic loses war crimes, genocide appeal

March 20, 2019March 20, 2019 Deutsche Welle

A United Nations court in The Hague on Wednesday dismissed an appeal by former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government to pay 40 leva ‘Easter bonus’ to lowest-bracket pensioners

March 20, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s Cabinet agreed on March 20 2019 to grant an “Easter bonus” in April of 40

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Business 

European Commission fines Google 1.49 billion euro for abusive practices in online advertising

March 20, 2019March 21, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Commission said on March 20 that it has fined Google 1.49 billion euro for breaching EU antitrust rules

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs lodge Constitutional Court challenge to personal data protection law

March 20, 2019March 23, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court said on March 20 that it has received a request by 55 MPs to rule on the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs appoint new Central Electoral Commission leadership

March 20, 2019September 3, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s National Assembly appointed on March 20 the new leadership of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), which will be taking

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Bulgaria 

2019’s third Super Moon over Bulgaria on the night of March 20/21

March 20, 2019March 20, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff final frontier

The third and final “Super Moon” of 2019 will be over Bulgaria on the night of March 20 into March

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Bulgaria 

Strong competition means difficult year for Bulgarian tourism – minister

March 20, 2019March 23, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

This year will be an extremely difficult one for Bulgaria’s tourism industry because of strong competition in the region, Tourism

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Bulgaria 

Orpheus, directed by Stefano Poda, to feature in Plovdiv’s Opera Open in June 2019

March 19, 2019March 20, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Highlights of the Opera Open 2019 festival in Bulgaria’s city of Plovdiv will include a premiere of Orpheus on June

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