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Day: March 14, 2024

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria: Handover of mandate to bid to form government postponed because of church Patriarch’s death

March 14, 2024March 14, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has postponed the handover ceremony of the first mandate to seek to form a government, which

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Bulgaria 

Late Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit’s funeral to be on March 16

March 14, 2024March 14, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

A service in memory of late Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit will be held on March 15 at 9am in

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Bulgaria 

Head of Roman Catholic Church in Bulgaria sends condolences on death of Patriarch Neofit

March 14, 2024March 14, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The head of the Episcopal Conference of the Catholic Church in Bulgaria, Bishop Hristo Proykov, expressed condolences in a message

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Bulgaria 

Tributes stream in for late Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit

March 14, 2024March 14, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Tributes have been streaming in for late Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit after the church’s governing body, the Holy Synod,

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Bulgaria records 3.3 per cent annual inflation in February

March 14, 2024March 14, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded 3.3 per cent inflation in February, down from 3.8 per cent a month

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Europe 

Eurostat: Life expectancy at birth in EU in 2022 was 80.6 years

March 14, 2024March 14, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

In 2022, the life expectancy at birth in the European Union was 80.6 years, up by 0.5 years from 2021, EU statistics agency

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Europe 

EU ministers in move towards new EU rules on suspending visa-free travel for third countries

March 14, 2024March 14, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

European Union member states’ ambassadors (Coreper) have agreed their position on a draft regulation which updates a mechanism that allows

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