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Month: June 2019

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Border Police: Flow of cars through Kulata to Greece 25% higher than last year

June 30, 2019July 2, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Greece, tourism

The flow of cars through the Kulata border checkpoint to Greece is 25 per cent higher than at this time

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Bulgaria 

Eurostat: 51% of Bulgarians use social networks

June 30, 2019June 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

About 51 per cent of Bulgarians participated in social networks in 2018, EU statistics agency Eurostat said in a report

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Bulgaria 

Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra to have series of concerts at Vrana Palace in July 2019

June 29, 2019July 1, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra is holding a series of four open-air concerts, from July 7 to 10 2019, at Vrana Palace.

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Europe 

First gay pride rally held in North Macedonia

June 29, 2019June 29, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Several hundred LGBT activists marched through the North Macedonian capital Skopje on June 29 for the country’s first Gay Pride Parade.

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s F16-deal: Defence Minister rejects President’s claim of ‘hidden billion’ cost

June 29, 2019July 1, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Krassimir Karakachanov, Roumen Radev

The price requested by the United States to sell Bulgaria F-16 fighter jets is 2.2 billion leva “and I do

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev slams F-16 deal: ‘Hidden billion cost’

June 29, 2019June 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

The F-16 fighter jet deal proposed to Bulgaria by the United States has a “hidden cost of a billion,” President

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Defence Minister: Russians will not participate in overhaul of Su-25s

June 29, 2019June 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Krassimir Karakachanov

Russian specialists will not participate in the overhaul of the Bulgarian Air Force’s Su-25 military jets, Defence Minister Krassimir Karakachanov

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria suspends Sofia police chief over early-morning ‘drunken’ row at fast-food outlet

June 29, 2019June 29, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The chief of police of one of Sofia’s regions has been suspended following an early morning incident in which he

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria January-May 2019 Budget surplus at 3.03B leva

June 28, 2019July 2, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry has said that the consolidated Budget surplus for the first five months of 2019 was 3.03 billion

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