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Month: September 2019

Bulgaria 

Flights begin repatriating Thomas Cook customers from Bulgaria

September 24, 2019September 25, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

The repatriation of foreign tourists who had arrived on holiday in Bulgaria on flights of the now-defunct Thomas Cook holiday

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Prosecutor-General asks supreme court to suspend parole of Palfreeman

September 24, 2019September 25, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Prosecutor-General Sotir Tsatsarov has petitioned the Supreme Court of Cassation to re-open the Jock Palfreeman case and suspend a ruling

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Bulgaria 

Judges on Bulgaria’s SJC concerned by tensions over Palfreeman case

September 24, 2019September 25, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The judicial college of Bulgaria’s Supreme Judicial Council (SJC) said on September 24 that it was concerned by the escalating

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Bulgaria 

Murder victim’s family to seek return of Palfreeman to prison

September 24, 2019September 25, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The family of Andrei Monov, the student killed in a stabbing incident in central Sofia in 2007, is to lodge

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Bulgaria 

Thomas Cook bankruptcy: Bulgarian Tourism Minister calls emergency meeting of tour operators

September 23, 2019September 25, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

The bankruptcy of the Thomas Cook holiday firm will cause quite serious difficulties with regard to plans for Bulgaria’s 2020

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Plovdiv Jazz Fest 2019 begins on October 31

September 23, 2019September 27, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The 2019 Plovdiv Jazz Fest, a highlight of the Bulgarian city’s calendar as European Capital of Culture, opens on October

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Bulgaria 

Palfreeman remains in migrant detention centre pending issuing of new Australian passport

September 22, 2019September 22, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Jock Palfreeman, the Australian murder convict released from Sofia Central Prison after being paroled nine years ahead of the end

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s 2019 summer tourism season was ‘good’ – Tourism Minister

September 22, 2019September 24, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

Bulgaria’s 2019 summer season was good and saw gains in a number of markets despite increased international competition, Tourism Minister

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Bulgaria 

CRC fines Bulgarian National Radio over ‘Horizont’s’ five-hour silence

September 22, 2019September 24, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Media

The Communications Regulation Commission (CRC) has fined public broadcaster Bulgarian National Radio over the five-hour silencing of the Horizont programme

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