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Month: March 2025

Business 

Bulgaria records 4.0% annual inflation in February

March 17, 2025March 17, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

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

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Business 

OECD: Higher and broader increases in trade barriers would hit growth around the world, add to inflation

March 17, 2025March 17, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

Higher and broader increases in trade barriers would hit growth around the world and add to inflation, the Organisation for

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Europe 

EU foreign ministers approve third close to 3.5B euro Ukraine Facility payment to Ukraine

March 17, 2025March 17, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Ukraine

Ukraine will soon receive about 3.5 billion euro after European Union foreign ministers approved a third payment of non-repayable grants

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria sends ambulances, aircraft to aid N Macedonia after disco fatal fire

March 16, 2025March 16, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Macedonia

On the orders of Bulgarian Prime Minister Rossen Zhelyazkov, a Bulgarian Air Force Spartan transport aircraft flew to North Macedonia’s

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria offers condolences, help after 51 die in N Macedonia disco fire

March 16, 2025March 16, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Macedonia

Bulgaria’s leaders have offered condolences and help after a reported 51 people died in a fire at a disco in

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Bulgaria 

Conspiracy theories and carping after Bulgaria’s election result recalculation

March 14, 2025March 14, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgaria elections 2024

Conspiracy theories and recriminations have followed the March 13 ruling by Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court that resulted in a reallocation of

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Europe 

Eurostat: EU life expectancy hits 81.4 years, exceeding pre-Covid level

March 14, 2025March 14, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

In 2023, life expectancy at birth in the EU was 81.4 years, marking an increase of 0.8 years from 2022, the bloc’s statistics agency

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s CEC announces adjusted seat distribution in 51st National Assembly

March 13, 2025September 30, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024

Several hours after Bulgaria’s Constitutional Court ruled to partially invalidate the results of the October 27 2024 parliamentary results, naming

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s winter 2024/2025 was relatively warm, but still the coldest in six years

March 13, 2025March 13, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

The winter of 2024/2025 in Bulgaria was again relatively warm, but was the country’s coldest in the past six years,

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