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Month: February 2026

Europe 

The Sofia Globe Monday digest: February 23

February 23, 2026March 10, 2026 ADJ

BAYES, AUTOCOMPLETE, AND THE COST OF PRETENDING THIS IS INTELLIGENCE Bayes’ theorem is probably the single most important concept any

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Sport 

Two bronzes put Bulgaria back among Winter Olympics medal winners

February 22, 2026February 22, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian athletes won two bronzes at the 2026 Winter Olympics held in Milano and Cortina d’Ampezzo, the first medals for

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria issues weather warnings for February 21 over forecast heavy snowfalls

February 20, 2026February 20, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s national meteorological bureau has issued the Code Orange warning of dangerous weather for several districts, and the lesser Code

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s caretaker Deputy Prime Minister for Fair Elections resigns

February 20, 2026February 24, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2026

A day after taking office as caretaker Deputy Prime Minister for Fair Elections as part of the Andrei Gyurov interim

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Bulgaria 

Broadcast media regulator elects Milotinova as new head of Bulgarian National Television

February 20, 2026February 20, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff Media

In a vote on February 20, statutory broadcast media regulator the Council for Electronic Media (CEM) elected veteran journalist Milena

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Europe 

EU imports from, exports to Ukraine increased in Q4 2025

February 20, 2026February 20, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

In the fourth quarter of 2025 compared with Q3 2025, both EU imports from Ukraine (6.4 per cent) and EU

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s caretaker Foreign Minister has reservations about Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’

February 19, 2026February 19, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff

Taking office on February 19 as Bulgaria’s caretaker Foreign Minister, Nadezhda Neynski said that she and her colleagues from the

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Europe 

EU ministers designate Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran as a terrorist organisation

February 19, 2026February 19, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff Iran

European Union ministers formally decided on February 19 to add the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran to the EU terrorist

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Business 

FDI in Bulgaria in 2025 was 3.26B euro – central bank data

February 19, 2026February 19, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in 2025 stood at 3.26 billion euro, the equivalent of 2.8 per cent of the

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