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Month: August 2020

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan who had Covid-19 dead at 78

August 19, 2020August 20, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church, new coronavirus

A member of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church’s governing body the Holy Synod, Metropolitan Amvrosiy of Dorostol, has died at the

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: 4451 active cases, 782 in hospital, 7 more deaths

August 19, 2020August 20, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The number of active cases of Covid-19 in Bulgaria has decreased in the past 24 hours by 95 to a

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Bulgaria 

British and Bulgarian-based actor Ben Cross dead at 72

August 18, 2020August 24, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

Ben Cross, the British actor who had lived for the past several years in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia, has died

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: 4546 active cases, 768 in hospital, 14 more deaths

August 18, 2020August 19, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The number of active cases of Covid-19 in Bulgaria and the number of patients in hospital with the virus decreased

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Europe 

Covid-19: Ukraine drops PCR test, quarantine requirements for arrivals from Bulgaria

August 18, 2020August 18, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus, Ukraine

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry has said that Ukraine has moved Bulgaria to its list of safe countries, which means that arrivals

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria: Car windscreen smashed as motorist tries to run anti-government protesters’ blockade

August 17, 2020August 19, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Tensions ran high in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia on the night of August 17 when a car, in which a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria ruling party tables draft new constitution in Parliament

August 17, 2020August 19, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party parliamentary group tabled a draft new constitution of Bulgaria in the National Assembly

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Business 

Covid-19: EC approves 4.4M euro Bulgarian state aid for Bourgas, Varna airports

August 17, 2020August 17, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The European Commission said on August 17 that it has approved 4.4 million euro in Bulgarian state aid aimed at

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Bulgaria 

FDI in Bulgaria in H1 2020 was 263M euro

August 17, 2020August 19, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first half of 2020 stood at 263 million euro, the equivalent of 0.5

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