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Day: July 17, 2020

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways asks public to vote on new locomotive design

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian state railways BDZ has invited the public to vote online on the choice of design for its new Siemens

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Short-staffed hospital in Plovdiv in recruiting drive

July 17, 2020July 20, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The Sveti Mina hospital in Plovdiv is urgently recruiting doctors, nurses and orderlies to work in the Covid-19 treatment ward,

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Bulgaria 

Fitch sees Bulgaria as ‘unlikely’ to join euro area before 2024

July 17, 2020July 21, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff euro zone

Fitch Ratings said on July 17 that Bulgaria’s admission to the Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM2), the euro zone’s “waiting room”,

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Business 

FDI in Bulgaria in January-May 2020 was 169.5M euro

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first five months of the year stood at 169.5 million euro, the equivalent

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Bulgaria 

Eurostat: Close to two-thirds of births in Bulgaria are outside marriage

July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

Fifty-nine per cent of live births in Bulgaria in 2018 were outside marriage, European Union statistics agency Eurostat said on

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Cases pass 8000-mark after record number of tests

July 17, 2020July 18, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The total number of confirmed cases of new coronavirus in Bulgaria has risen to 8144, of which 3924 are active,

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