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Month: March 2024

Bulgaria 

Visits by non-residents to Bulgaria in February 2024 up 15.6 % y/y

March 28, 2024March 28, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

In February 2024, the number of visits by non-residents to Bulgaria was 698 944, an increase of 15.6 per cent

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Bulgaria 

Confirmed: Bulgaria is again heading to early parliamentary elections

March 28, 2024March 28, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024

Bulgaria is set to hold early parliamentary elections after the process of seeking to form a new government proved fruitless.

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Bulgaria 

Austrian Airlines flight crew strike cancels flights between Sofia and Vienna

March 28, 2024March 28, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

A strike by Austrian Airlines flight staff has resulted in the cancellation of several flights between Vienna and Bulgaria’s capital

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Bulgaria 

We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria renounces mandate to seek to form government

March 27, 2024March 27, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

On behalf of the We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria parliamentary group, Nikolai Denkov – the coalition’s Prime Minister-designate for mere

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Bulgaria 

European prosecutors lodge indictment of suspect over agricultural subsidy fraud in Bulgaria

March 27, 2024March 27, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Sofia has filed an indictment against one suspect for subsidy fraud, following an investigation

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Europe 

Eurostat: EU received 5.1 million immigrants in 2022

March 27, 2024March 27, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

In 2022, 5.1 million people immigrated to the EU from non-EU countries, while a million people emigrated from the EU to destinations

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Business 

Hourly labour costs in Bulgaria up 14% in 2023, still lowest in EU

March 27, 2024March 27, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Hourly labour costs in Bulgaria in 2023 were 14 per cent higher than in 2022, but remained the lowest in

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Bulgaria 

Borissov: GERB-UDF will not participate in further attempts to form a government

March 26, 2024March 26, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

In a lengthy letter to We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria on March 26, GERB-UDF leader Boiko Borissov said that his

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Bulgaria 

Interior Minister: All Bulgaria’s international airports ready for Schengen

March 26, 2024March 26, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Schengen

All of Bulgaria’s international airports are fully ready for the implementation of Schengen zone procedures, outgoing Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov

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