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Month: September 2020

Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: 66 deaths in the past week

September 6, 2020September 9, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Six people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for new coronavirus died in the past 24 hours, bringing the country’s

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Bulgaria 

Road repairs to begin on hazardous stretch of Bulgaria’s Trakiya Motorway

September 5, 2020September 9, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

September 2020 will see the beginning of road repairs of about 50km of Bulgaria’s Trakiya Motorway, on a stretch in

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Bulgaria Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s protests and the hunting of Hippoland

September 5, 2020September 9, 2020 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Let us begin with two notes from history. In May 1971, Richard M Nixon was holding forth on the topic

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Bulgaria 

Implementing ECHR judgments: Council of Europe calls on Bulgaria to uphold the rule of law

September 5, 2020September 8, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

The Committee of Ministers of the 47-nation Council of Europe has urged Bulgaria to prepare new legislative and, if necessary,

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19: Malta scraps PCR test requirement for arrivals from Bulgaria

September 5, 2020September 7, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

As of September 5, Malta no longer requires people arriving from Bulgaria to present a negative PCR test done up

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: 7 new deaths, 4243 active cases, 763 in hospital

September 5, 2020September 6, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Seven people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for new coronavirus died in the past 24 hours, the national information

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Bulgaria 

EXPO ARTCO19, open-air art exhibition, opens in Bulgaria’s capital on September 26

September 5, 2020September 7, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

EXPO ARTCO19, described by the organisers as the largest and first of its kind open-air art exhibition in Bulgaria, will

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian economy shrinks by 10% in Q2 2020

September 4, 2020September 5, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators, new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s economy declined by 10 per cent in the second quarter of 2020, according to preliminary data announced by the

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19: Belgium drops north-eastern Bulgaria from ‘red zone’ list

September 4, 2020September 5, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Belgium has moved north-eastern Bulgaria – the districts of Varna, Dobrich, Shoumen, Turgovishte – from its list of “red zones”

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