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Month: July 2020

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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Bulgaria Perspectives 

What turns lie ahead in Bulgaria’s political crisis?

July 16, 2020July 18, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has pledged, after meeting his government coalition partners, that his Cabinet will serve out its

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Bulgaria 

Getty Foundation grants $60 000 to stabilise mosaics at Bulgaria’s Buzludzha monument

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

The vulnerable mosaics, among the largest modern wall mosaics in Europe, in Bulgaria’s Buzludzha monument will be stabilised with a

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Bulgaria 

Coalition council: Bulgaria’s government will not resign, Cabinet reshuffle coming

July 16, 2020July 19, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

At a meeting on July 16, the government coalition council of Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party and the ultra-nationalist

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Bulgaria 

New passenger car registrations in Bulgaria fell 44.5% in January-June 2020 y/y

July 16, 2020July 16, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

New passenger car registrations in Bulgaria in January to June 2020 were 44.5 per cent lower than in the first

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