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Month: January 2024

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s mountain resorts offer events on weekend of World Snow Day

January 17, 2024January 17, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

World Snow Day 2024 is on January 21, and Bulgaria’s mountain resorts of Borovets and Bansko have arranged events linked

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Smolyan district declares influenza epidemic

January 17, 2024January 17, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Smolyan district has declared a flu epidemic, and measures to be in effect from January 18 to 24 have

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s government: Blair and his institute to advise on fight against corruption, other priorities

January 17, 2024January 17, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Institute for Global Change will be “advocates for Bulgarian priorities”, the Bulgarian

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Bulgaria 

Tourism Ministry: Bulgaria’s membership of Schengen will increase foreign tourists’ interest in country

January 17, 2024January 17, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Schengen, tourism

Bulgaria’s Schengen membership will increase foreign tourists’ interest in the country, the Tourism Ministry said on January 17 after minister

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Business 

FDI in Bulgaria in January-November 2023 was 3.49B euro

January 17, 2024February 16, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first 11 months of last year stood at 3.49 billion euro, the equivalent

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Europe 

Study: Covid-19 vaccinations have saved more than 1.4M lives in WHO European Region

January 16, 2024January 16, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Since their introduction in December 2020, Covid-19 vaccines have reduced deaths due to the pandemic by at least 57 per

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Bulgaria 

Defence Chief: Bulgaria on track to receive eight F-16 fighter jets in 2025

January 16, 2024May 6, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff F-16

Bulgaria will receive eight American F-16 fighter jets from the United States in 2025, Defence Chief Admiral Emil Eftimov told

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Business 

Eurostat: EU tourism industry eclipsed pre-pandemic levels in 2023

January 16, 2024January 16, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

In 2023, European Union tourism continued to show signs of rebounding from the Covid-19 pandemic, EU statistics agency Eurostat said

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Bulgaria 

Voting rights of millions of Britons living abroad restored

January 16, 2024January 16, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

More than three million British citizens living abroad have regained their right to vote in British general elections and referendums

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