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Month: September 2019

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry slams Russian embassy event marking 1944 Soviet invasion

September 3, 2019September 5, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has strongly criticised an event planned by the Russian embassy in Sofia entitled “The 75th

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2019 local elections: Ombudsman resigns, to stand as Sofia mayoral candidate

September 3, 2019September 3, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019

Maya Manolova arrived at Bulgaria’s National Assembly on the afternoon of September 3 to submit her resignation as national Ombudsman,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria awards highest state honour to departing ambassador of Greece

September 3, 2019September 3, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

Bulgaria has conferred its highest state honour, the Stara Planina first degree, on outgoing Greek ambassador Grigorios Vassiloconstandakis. Vassiloconstandakis, whose

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s local elections: Sofia mayor Fandukova sees Manolova candidacy as serious, not scary

September 3, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019, Sofia

Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova, seeking a fourth term in Bulgaria’s autumn 2019 local elections, said that she sees the challenge

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s GERB leader Borissov speaks on Ombudsman’s candidacy for Sofia mayor

September 3, 2019September 5, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria local elections 2019

Bulgarian Prime Minister and GERB party leader Boiko Borissov says that he has no regrets about the support he has

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Ombudsman Manolova announces candidacy for mayor of Sofia

September 2, 2019September 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019

Bulgaria’s national Ombudman Maya Manolova said on September 2 that she would stand as a candidate to be mayor of

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Europe 

Lifting of capital controls in Greece finalised

September 2, 2019September 2, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency euro zone, Greece

After four years, the capital controls in Greece have finally been lifted. The grounds for such a development had been

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2019 local elections: Fandukova seeks fourth term as Sofia mayor

September 2, 2019September 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019, Sofia

Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova confirmed on September 2 that she would seek a fourth term in office in Bulgaria’s autumn

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Health Ministry: 1154 cases of measles reported

September 2, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

A total of 1154 cases of measles had been reported as at August 29, Bulgaria’s Ministry of Health said. Fourteen

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