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Month: August 2026

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM speaks to Nato chief after media report of Iran threat

August 20, 2026August 20, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff Iran, Nato, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Roumen Radev held a telephone conversation on August 20 with Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte following a

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FDI in Bulgaria in H1 2026 was 2.18B euro

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

Foreign direct investment in Bulgaria in the first six months of the year stood at 2.18 billion euro, the equivalent

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s government approves additional spending up to 170M euro for farmers affected by Middle East war

August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff

Meeting on August 19, the Bulgarian government adopted a decree approving additional spending of up to 170 million euro under

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Interior Minister: New law against antisocial behaviour by minors, but no bar on social network access

August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Interior Minister Ivan Demerdzhiev said on August 19 that his ministry is preparing a completely new law to counter

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Business 

Eurostat: EU ice cream production up almost 2% in 2025

August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff

In 2025, the EU produced 3.44 billion litres of ice cream, representing a 1.9 per cent increase compared with 2024 (3.38 billion

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Bulgaria 

After four years, Bulgaria again has an ambassador to Ukraine

August 19, 2026August 19, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

Career diplomat Zlatin Krastev presented his credentials to Ukrainian President Volomdymyr Zelenskyy on August 18, meaning that after a four-year

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Business 

Bulgaria annual inflation falls to 4.5% in July

August 17, 2026August 28, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

Bulgaria’s annual consumer price index (CPI) recorded 4.5 per cent inflation in July, a drop from 5.4 per cent a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian prosecutors lay charges against alleged neo-Nazis in Plovdiv

August 17, 2026August 17, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The Plovdiv District Prosecutor’s Office has laid charges under anti-hate crime laws against three men aged 18, 39 and 42,

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Bulgaria 

Opposition marks 100 days of Bulgaria’s Radev government by slamming it

August 16, 2026August 28, 2026 The Sofia Globe staff Roumen Radev

After 100 days, Roumen Radev is no longer the alternative to power, Roumen Radev is the power and there is

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