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Month: July 2022

Bulgaria 

Half of Bulgaria’s districts are Covid-19 red zones

July 28, 2022July 28, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Fourteen out of the 28 districts in Bulgaria are Covid-19 red zones, meaning a morbidity rate between 250 and 499.9

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to hold early elections after BSP gives up mandate

July 27, 2022July 27, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), holder of the third and final mandate to seek to form a government, will return

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: 13 districts are red zones

July 27, 2022July 27, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s districts of Plovdiv and Haskovo have crossed the threshold to be reclassified from Covid-19 yellow zones to red zones,

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Business World 

IMF’s World Economic Outlook update: Gloom and uncertainty

July 26, 2022July 26, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff IMF

A tentative recovery in 2021 has been followed by increasingly gloomy developments in 2022 as risks began to materialise, according

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party in new manoeuvre on country’s political future

July 26, 2022July 26, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kornelia Ninova

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP), holder of the third and final mandate to seek to form a government, has mapped

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party mulls fate of mandate, as early elections expected

July 26, 2022July 26, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kornelia Ninova, Roumen Radev

Members of the Bulgarian Socialist Party national council went into a meeting on the afternoon of July 26 to decide

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Europe 

EU energy ministers approve 15% voluntary gas demand cuts, with exemptions

July 26, 2022July 26, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff energy

European Union member states agreed on July 26 to the European Commission plan to voluntarily cut natural gas demand this

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 red zone districts in Bulgaria rise to 11

July 26, 2022July 26, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

In the past day, three districts in Bulgaria have crossed the threshold to be reclassified from Covid-19 yellow zones to

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: In past week, 36 deaths, 10 526 new cases

July 25, 2022July 25, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s Covid-19 death toll has risen to 37 330, with 36 new deaths registered in the past week, according to

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