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Month: October 2025

Europe 

EU leaders commit to addressing Ukraine’s financial needs, stop short of using Russian assets for loan

October 24, 2025October 24, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

Meeting on October 23, European Union leaders committed to address Ukraine’s pressing financial needs for 2026-2027 and invited the European Commission

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Bulgaria 

Remembrance Day 2025 services to be held in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv and Sofia

October 23, 2025October 25, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv, Sofia

This year’s annual Remembrance Day Services will be held in Plovdiv Central Cemetery on November 9 and in Sofia Central

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Europe 

Zelenskyy tells EU leaders: There must be real consequences for those who break the rules

October 23, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

When Vladimir Putin avoids diplomacy, bluffs, and escalates terror, there must be strong pressure on him to bring him back

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Perspectives 

The forest you carry

October 23, 2025October 23, 2025 ADJ

It started as a mistake. The kind that rewrites you. Five friends, one tired taxi driver, a road that turned

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s PM: US sanctions on Lukoil affect company’s refinery in Bourgas

October 23, 2025October 23, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas, energy, Russia

Bulgaria has one month – until November 21 – to decide what to do with the Lukoil Neftochim refinery in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Parliament widens powers of competition body, opposition says it will be ‘powerful cudgel’

October 23, 2025October 23, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

With the votes of the ruling majority, Bulgaria’s Parliament approved on October 23 the second and final reading of amendments

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs override presidential veto of State Agency for National Security Act amendments

October 23, 2025October 23, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s National Assembly voted on October 23 to overturn President Roumen Radev’s veto on amendments to the country’s State Agency

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Europe 

EU adopts 19th package of sanctions on Russia

October 23, 2025October 23, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

The Council of the European Union adopted on October 23 a sweeping 19th package of further 69 individual listings and numerous

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Bulgaria 

Clash in European Parliament over rule of law in Bulgaria

October 22, 2025October 22, 2025 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Delyan Peevski, European Parliament

A debate in the European Parliament on October 22 requested by the Renew Europe group on what it termed the

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