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Month: July 2024

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Climatologist: Bulgaria faces warmest summer on record

July 31, 2024July 31, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Climatologist Georgi Rachev said in a television interview that this will be Bulgaria’s warmest summer since there have been meteorological

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria again extends humanitarian aid scheme for people displaced from Ukraine

July 31, 2024July 31, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

Meeting on July 31, Bulgaria’s caretaker government granted the latest in a succession of extensions of the humanitarian aid scheme

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s caretaker Cabinet asks Parliament to ratify air policing deal with Türkiye

July 31, 2024July 31, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Turkey, Türkiye

Bulgaria’s caretaker Cabinet agreed on July 31 to ask the National Assembly to ratify a memorandum of understanding on cross-border

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to bolster Nato’s eastern flank through deal with Romania

July 31, 2024July 31, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Romania

Meeting on July 31, Bulgaria’s caretaker government agreed to ask Parliament to ratify a memorandum of understanding with Romania on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s July 2024 one of two hottest since 1930 – weather bureau

July 31, 2024July 31, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

The month of July 2024 in Bulgaria was similarly warm to July 2012, which was the country’s warmest seventh month

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Business 

In spite of increase, Bulgaria still has lowest minimum wage in EU

July 30, 2024July 30, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Of the 22 European Union countries that have a minimum wage, Bulgaria continues to have the lowest, according to figures

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Bulgaria 

Cold War-era mines complicate firefighting at Greek-Bulgarian border

July 30, 2024July 30, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

Firefighting on Slavyanka Mountain on the border between Greece and Bulgaria has been suspended because of explosions in the area,

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Business 

NSI poll: Business climate in Bulgaria declined in July

July 30, 2024July 30, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

A regular monthly poll by the National Statistical Institute (NSI), the results of which were released on July 30, has

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Bulgaria 

‘Last chance’: Bulgarian President hands government-forming mandate to Parliament’s smallest group

July 29, 2024July 29, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024, Roumen Radev

At a brief ceremony on July 29, Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev handed Parliament’s smallest group, populist ITN,

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