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Month: March 2023

Europe 

Commercial flights in EU in 2022 still below 2019 levels

March 10, 2023March 10, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff

In 2022, the number of commercial flights in the European Union was still below the pre-pandemic number of 2019, EU

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria: Sofia city council votes to ask for Soviet Army Monument to be moved from city centre

March 9, 2023March 9, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Sofia

Sofia city council voted on March 9 to instruct mayor Yordanka Fandukova to ask the state to move the Soviet

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Europe 

EU ministers agree to visa-free travel for Kosovo passport holders

March 9, 2023March 9, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Kosovo

European Union interior ministers agreed at a meeting on March 9 that holders of Kosovo passports should be allowed to

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Europe 

Eurostat: Annual inflation more than tripled in the EU in 2022

March 9, 2023March 9, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff

In 2022, EU annual inflation reached the highest level ever measured at 9.2 per cent. Compared with 2021, when the annual value was 2.9

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria moves to scrap education certificate requirement for driving licences for foreigners

March 8, 2023March 8, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff

Meeting on March 8, Bulgaria’s caretaker government approved proposed amendments to legislation, including scrapping the requirement for foreigners to submit

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria says 7 EU countries back its call to scrap contract for Covid-19 vaccines

March 8, 2023March 8, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s caretaker government voted unanimously on March 8 to call for the European Commission to terminate the contract with Pfizer-BioNTech

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Bulgaria 

Moving of Soviet Army Monument in Bulgaria’s capital on city council agenda

March 8, 2023March 9, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Sofia

The removal of the Soviet Army Monument from its place in the centre of Bulgaria’s capital city has been added

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Europe 

Laptops for Ukraine: 13 000 more laptops, smartphones to go to Ukraine through EC-backed initiative

March 8, 2023March 8, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

Thirteen thousand additional laptops, smartphones and tablets have been gathered and will be delivered to Ukraine through the European Commission-supported initiative Laptops

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Europe 

EC: About 4M people fleeing war in Ukraine granted protection in EU

March 8, 2023March 8, 2023 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

Since the European Commission (EC) triggered on March 4 2022 the Temporary Protection Directive for people fleeing Russia’s war on

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