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Month: August 2019

Bulgaria 

Security co-operation main topic in phone call between Bulgarian, UK PMs

August 28, 2019August 28, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Brexit

The extremely good security co-operation between the UK and Bulgaria was the main topic of a phone conversation between British

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Bulgaria 

Number of foreign tourists in Bulgaria in July 2019 down 3.2% – NSI

August 27, 2019August 29, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency tourism

The number of foreign tourists who visited Bulgaria in July 2019 was 3.2 per cent lower than in July 2018,

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Bulgaria 

Orient Express visits Bulgaria’s cities of Rousse and Varna

August 27, 2019August 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Rousse, tourism, Varna

The Venice-Simplon Orient Express, arguably the most famous luxury long-distance train in the world, visited Bulgaria’s Danube city of Rousse

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Bulgaria 

Finding of corroded shell forces closure of bus station in Bulgarian capital

August 27, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The South Bus Station in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia was temporarily closed on August 27 after a highly corroded artillery

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2019 local elections: GERB again allies with small parties

August 27, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Repeating a move made in Bulgaria’s May 2019 European Parliament elections, Prime Minister and GERB party leader Boiko Borissov signed

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: Large tower found at Bulgaria’s mediaeval Rusokastro site

August 27, 2019August 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Archaeologists working at the mediaeval Rusokastro fortress site in Bulgaria have found remnants of a large tower, that was 15

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Bulgaria 

Price of meat in Bulgaria second-lowest in the EU – Eurostat

August 27, 2019August 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The price of meat in Bulgaria was the second-lowest in the European Union in 2018, EU statistics agency Eurostat said

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Europe 

Greece’s Prime Minister announces abolition of capital controls

August 26, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on August 26 the complete abolition of capital controls. “In co-operation with the Bank

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s law on seatbelts in buses not being implemented – report

August 26, 2019August 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

A year after the August 25 2018 bus crash near the Bulgarian town of Svoge in which 20 people died,

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