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Month: May 2019

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: GERB lodges complaint against President for ‘electioneering’

May 13, 2019May 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian European elections 2019, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party lodged a complaint with the Central Election Commission against President Roumen Radev on

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Bulgaria 

Turkish ambassador tells Bulgarian Foreign Ministry his words were distorted by the media

May 13, 2019May 14, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Turkey

Turkish ambassador Hasan Ulusoy, at the centre of a controversy about his reported call to boost the teaching of Turkish

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s exports in January – March 2019 up by 8.9% on annual basis

May 13, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency macroeconomic indicators

In January – March 2019, the total value of all goods exported from Bulgaria amounted to 13 942.1 million leva,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria, Latvia have lowest life expectancy in EU – statistics institute

May 13, 2019May 14, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

In the period 2016 – 2018, life expectancy at birth in Bulgaria was 74.8 years, the National Statistical Institute (NSI)

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Bulgaria 

From Bulgaria to birds: Dinosaurs a drawcard at 2019 Sofia Science Festival

May 12, 2019May 16, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Science Festival

Nothing fills a hall like a dinosaur. Especially in the popular imagination which immediately pictures a Tyrannosaurus rex. But there

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Europe 

Pendarovski sworn in as new President of Republic of North Macedonia

May 12, 2019May 13, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Macedonia

Following his second-round victory in the Republic of North Macedonia’s presidential elections, ruling coalition candidate Stevo Pendarovski was sworn in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria summons Turkish ambassador over reported call to encourage study of Turkish language

May 12, 2019May 13, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria European elections 2019, Kornelia Ninova, Turkey

Political controversy has erupted in Bulgaria over reported comments by Turkish ambassador Hasan Ulusoy calling on the state to encourage

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Bulgaria 

Exhibition ‘Modernism and avant-garde. The Bulgarian Perspective. The Nikolai Nedelchev Collection’ opens on May 30

May 11, 2019May 14, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

An exhibition entitled “Modernism and avant-garde. The Bulgarian Perspective. The Nikolai Nedelchev Collection” opens at the Struktura Gallery in Sofia

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s European Parliament election: PM has not broken campaign rules, election commission says

May 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian European elections 2019, Kornelia Ninova

The Central Election Commission has rejected a claim by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) that Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has

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