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Month: January 2025

Europe 

European auditors: EU city-dwellers still suffer from air and noise pollution

January 15, 2025January 15, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

Urban pollution continues to be a major environmental threat to health in the EU, warns a report published on January

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Parliament amends law on top posts in judiciary

January 15, 2025January 15, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Bulgaria’s Parliament passed at second reading on January 15 a bill amending the Judiciary Act, which will limit the appointment

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s caretaker government approves draft amendments to Foreigners Act

January 15, 2025January 15, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Schengen

Meeting on January 15, Bulgaria’s caretaker government approved draft amendments to the Foreigners Act, to be tabled in Parliament, the

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Bulgaria 

Romania has joined Nato Battle Group in Bulgaria

January 15, 2025January 15, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Romania

Starting January 2025, Romania augmented its troop and military equipment contribution to two more Nato Battle Groups operating in the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s caretaker government to ask Parliament to approve Javelins contract

January 15, 2025January 15, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s caretaker government approved at a meeting on January 15 an international contract to acquire Javelin missiles under the US

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Bulgaria 

GERB-UDF’s Zhelyazkov presents proposed government to President Radev

January 15, 2025January 15, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

At a ceremony on January 15, GERB-UDF’s Rossen Zhelyazkov accepted from President Roumen Radev a mandate to seek to get

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Business 

Bulgaria records 2.2 per cent annual inflation in 2024

January 15, 2025January 15, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded 2.2 per cent inflation in December 2024, up from 2.1 per cent a

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Bulgaria 

GERB-UDF’s Zhelyazkov: Nomination of a government depends on Dogan faction of MRF

January 14, 2025January 14, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

A day before being due to be handed a mandate by President Roumen Radev to seek to get a government

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President to hand GERB-UDF mandate to seek to form a government on January 15

January 13, 2025January 13, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev will on January 15 hand Boiko Borissov’s GERB-UDF coalition the first mandate to

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