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Month: June 2020

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Sixteen foreign diplomats in video messages backing Sofia Pride 2020

June 13, 2020June 15, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Pride

Sixteen foreign diplomats accredited to Bulgaria have recorded video messages backing Sofia Pride 2020, being held online on June 13

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19: Bulgarian prosecutors investigating infected doctor who refused to name contact persons

June 13, 2020June 13, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Prosecutors are investigating a doctor from Sofia’s Pirogov emergency hospital who went on leave to her home town of Kurdzhali

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Active cases rise to 1303, death toll 172

June 13, 2020June 14, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The total number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Bulgaria to date is 3191, counting in those who have died

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Health Minister issues new order on mandatory quarantine

June 13, 2020June 16, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s Health Minister Kiril Ananiev has issued a new order on mandatory quarantine for people arriving from a number of

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Health Minister issues new order on masks

June 12, 2020June 15, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s Health Minister Kiril Ananiev has issued an order that takes effect as of June 15 regarding the wearing of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Health Minister: Visits to discos, night bars and night clubs still banned

June 12, 2020June 13, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

From June 15 to June 30, visits to discos, piano bars, night bars, clubs and the like are not allowed,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Cabinet approves bank stake buy before joining euro zone ‘waiting room’

June 12, 2020June 15, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s government approved on June 12 the acquisition of a stake in privately-held First Investment Bank (FIBank) in a move

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Bulgaria 

EIB report: Economic downturn likely to reverse Bulgaria banks’ progress on NPLs

June 12, 2020June 12, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

Progress by the Bulgarian banking sector on overall non-performing loans (NPL) figures over the past six months is likely to

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Bulgaria 

Banking sector in Central, Eastern Europe ‘likely to face one of worst years since global financial crisis’

June 12, 2020June 12, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

The banking sector in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe is likely to face one of its worst years since the

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