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Day: September 17, 2019

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Air Force MiGs in joint exercise with Romania, Canada

September 17, 2019September 18, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Air Force MiG-29 fighter jets from Graf Ignatievo Air Force Base are taking part in the joint exercise Blue

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria court confirms watchdog decision on gas grid capacity expansion contract

September 17, 2019September 17, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency energy

Bulgaria’s Supreme Administrative Court has dismissed the appeal against the Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) decision that re-instated Saudi

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Bulgaria 

Foreign ambassadors among those honoured on Day of Sofia

September 17, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Eric Rubin, former United States ambassador to Bulgaria, was among those named an honorary citizen of Bulgaria’s capital city on

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Europe 

Asylum applications in EU+ up 26% in July 2019 – EASO

September 17, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

In July 2019, the monthly number of applications for international protection lodged in the 30 EU+ countries (European Union countries plus Norway and

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Europe 

European Parliament backs Lagarde to head European Central Bank

September 17, 2019September 17, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Christine Lagarde obtained the European Parliament’s approval to be the next president of the European Central Bank (ECB), in a

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Bulgaria 

Prosecutor’s Office: ‘Technical reasons’ were not why Bulgarian National Radio’s Horizont went off air

September 17, 2019September 19, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Media

An investigation has established that claims that technical reasons were why Bulgarian National Radio’s Horizont programme went off air for

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