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Day: April 15, 2019

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM on Notre Dame fire: ‘My thoughts are with the French people and whole Catholic world’

April 15, 2019April 17, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has reacted to the fire devastating Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, writing in a Twitter

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Transport Minister meets Turkish ambassador over lorry delays at border

April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Bulgaria’s Transport Minister Rossen Zhelyazkov held talks on April 15 with Turkish ambassador Hasan Ulusoy to discuss the delays of

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Bulgaria 

Former Sofia district mayor handed 20-year sentence in corruption trial

April 15, 2019November 10, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s specialised court found the former mayor of Sofia’s Mladost district Dessislava Ivancheva guilty on April 15 on charges of

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Bulgaria 

Leader of Bulgaria’s DOST party out on 10 000 leva bail after collision in which child died

April 15, 2019April 16, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Lyutvi Mestan

Lyutvi Mestan, leader of Bulgaria’s extra-parliamentary DOST political party, has been released on bail of 10 000 leva (about 5000

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria annual CPI records 3.6% inflation in March

April 15, 2019April 16, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded 3.6 per cent inflation in March, up from 3.2 per cent a month

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Bulgaria 

Man faces charges over faking Bulgarian passports, ID documents for migrants in Greece

April 15, 2019April 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The District Court in the Bulgarian town of Shoumen has remanded in custody a 33-year-old fine arts graduate who faces

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party leader Ninova fails in bid to exclude Stanishev from European Parliament candidate list

April 15, 2019April 16, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Kornelia Ninova, Sergei Stanishev

The leader of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, Kornelia Ninova, has failed in her attempt to exclude Party of European Socialists

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