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Day: June 2, 2021

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry on US sanctions on Peevski, Bozhkov: ‘Rule of law at heart of democratic process’

June 2, 2021June 5, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry reacted on June 2 to the announcements by the US Treasury and State departments on the sanctions

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Business 

Multinationals to be obliged to declare what taxes they pay in each EU country

June 2, 2021June 2, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff

Members of the European Parliament sealed a deal obliging multinationals to publicly declare what taxes they pay in each European

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Bulgaria 

US sanctions Bulgaria’s Peevski, Bozhkov, Zhelyazkov over ‘expansive networks for engaging in corruption’

June 2, 2021June 4, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff

The United States Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on June 2 that it had

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Health Ministry warns against disinformation about Covid-19 vaccines

June 2, 2021June 2, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The vaccines with which Bulgaria is conducting its immunisation campaign against Covid-19 have successfully passed all three phases of clinical

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s caretaker Interior Minister replaces Border Police chief

June 2, 2021June 2, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s caretaker Interior Minister Boiko Rashkov has appointed a new head of the Border Police, replacing Svetlan Kichikov who had

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Europe 

New EU rules on cash controls for travellers take effect on June 3

June 2, 2021June 4, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff

New European Union rules come into force on June 3, which will improve the EU’s system of controls of cash

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Bulgaria 

EC appoints Bulgaria’s Tsanova as Deputy D-G to steer its borrowing and lending operations

June 2, 2021June 2, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Commission (EC) said on June 2 that has appointed Iliyana Tsanova, a Bulgarian national, as Deputy Director-General of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian railways organising two more steam train trips in June

June 2, 2021June 2, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ

Bulgarian state railways BDZ is organising two further steam train trips on the Septemvri – Velingrad narrow-gauge line after an

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: In past day, 26 deaths, 1.78% tests positive

June 2, 2021June 3, 2021 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Twenty-six people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 died in the past day, bringing the country’s death toll

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