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Month: August 2019

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria expects quality grapes and good wine after 2019 harvest

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

The 2019 grape harvest in Bulgaria is likely to result in good quality wines, though quantities of grapes will be

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian sappers carry out bomb disposal after old artillery shells found

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

Three separate operations are being carried out in different places in Bulgaria to destroy corroded artillery shells found at various

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Bulgaria 

Zaharieva: Bulgaria, Romania underrepresented in European foreign policy arm

August 26, 2019August 26, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Kristalina Georgieva, Romania

Unfortunately, Bulgaria and Romania are still underrepresented in the European External Action Service, and the two countries have excellent diplomats,

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Bulgaria 

Fitch Ratings affirms Bulgaria ‘BBB’ credit rating, positive outlook

August 25, 2019August 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Fitch Ratings has affirmed Bulgaria’s sovereign long-term foreign and local currency Issuer Default Ratings (IDRs) at ‘BBB’, with a positive

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Bulgaria 

Repairs to fix Strouma Motorway fire damage estimated at 1.86M leva

August 23, 2019August 28, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s road infrastructure agency plans to allow partial traffic on the Strouma Motorway overbridge near the town of Doupnitsa damaged

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Bulgaria 

Israelis were largest group of foreign tourists in Plovdiv in June 2019 – statistics institute

August 23, 2019August 26, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv, tourism

Israelis made up the largest group of foreign tourists who visited Plovdiv in June 2019, Bulgaria’s National Statistical Institute (NSI)

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Bulgaria 

New art gallery to open in Plovdiv’s Gladstone Street on September 2

August 23, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Plovdiv’s new 2019 Exhibition Hall, built on the site of a previously-demolished art gallery in Gladstone Street, is to open

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria railways offering vintage steam train excursion on September 6

August 23, 2019August 27, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ, tourism

Bulgarian state railways BDZ is offering an excursion on a narrow-gauge train, pulled by a Polish-made locomotive dating from 1949,

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Europe 

EC: ‘A Free Europe is not a given but a choice, every day’

August 23, 2019August 26, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

European Commissioners Frans Timmermans and Vera Jourová released a statement marking August 23, the Europe-Wide Day of Remembrance for the

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