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Month: March 2019

Bulgaria 

Homophobic graffiti on Plovdiv 2019 HQ latest attack on ‘Balkan Pride’ project

March 19, 2019March 22, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Homophobic graffiti was daubed on the headquarters of the Plovdiv 2019 Foundation on March 19 in the latest attack on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President declares May 26 as day of European Parliament elections

March 19, 2019March 20, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff European Parliament, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev has issued a decree that the country’s European Parliament elections will be held

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Europe 

Brexit: EU Council adopts contingency measures for ‘no-deal’ scenario

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

The Council of the European Council adopted on March 19 a series of legislative acts as part of its contingency

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria again faces shortage of qualified staff for summer holiday resorts

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

Bulgaria’s hospitality industry will again import staff from Ukraine and Moldova for its summer holiday resorts because of a lack

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM cables Rutte after shooting attack in Utrecht

March 18, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has cabled his Dutch counterpart Mark Rutte following the attack on civilians in the city

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Transport Minister: 4B leva needed to carry out strategic railway projects

March 18, 2019March 18, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The budget necessary to implement all strategic railway projects in Bulgaria after 2021 is four billion leva (about two billion

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Bulgaria 

European Music Festival 2019 begins in Sofia on March 21: From Vladigerov to Vivaldi

March 18, 2019March 20, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Music Festival 2019, part of Sofia municipality’s cultural events calendar and co-organised by the Bulgarian Ministry of Culture,

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Bulgaria 

National Council of Religious Communities in Bulgaria condemns terrorist attack on mosques in New Zealand

March 17, 2019March 20, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The National Council of Religious Communities in Bulgaria has strongly condemned the terrorist attack on two mosques in the New

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Bulgaria 

Contemporary children’s book illustrations from the UK exhibited at Sofia’s ‘Kvadrat 500’

March 17, 2019March 19, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

An exhibition entitled “Drawing Words”, of contemporary children’s book illustrations from the UK, is on at the National Gallery’s “Kvadrat

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