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Bulgarian PM Borissov accepts resignation of Agriculture Minister Porozhanov

May 14, 2019May 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has accepted the resignation of Minister of Agriculture, Food and Forestry Roumen Porozhanov, the government

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Bulgaria 

6000 military personnel to take part in Nato exercise in Bulgaria in May-June 2019

May 13, 2019May 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

At the initiative of Nato, a series of national and multinational military exercises will be held in Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s European Parliament elections: GERB lodges complaint against President for ‘electioneering’

May 13, 2019May 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian European elections 2019, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s GERB party lodged a complaint with the Central Election Commission against President Roumen Radev on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria, Latvia have lowest life expectancy in EU – statistics institute

May 13, 2019May 14, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

In the period 2016 – 2018, life expectancy at birth in Bulgaria was 74.8 years, the National Statistical Institute (NSI)

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Bulgaria 

From Bulgaria to birds: Dinosaurs a drawcard at 2019 Sofia Science Festival

May 12, 2019May 16, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Science Festival

Nothing fills a hall like a dinosaur. Especially in the popular imagination which immediately pictures a Tyrannosaurus rex. But there

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Europe 

Pendarovski sworn in as new President of Republic of North Macedonia

May 12, 2019May 13, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Macedonia

Following his second-round victory in the Republic of North Macedonia’s presidential elections, ruling coalition candidate Stevo Pendarovski was sworn in

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Bulgaria 

Exhibition ‘Modernism and avant-garde. The Bulgarian Perspective. The Nikolai Nedelchev Collection’ opens on May 30

May 11, 2019May 14, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

An exhibition entitled “Modernism and avant-garde. The Bulgarian Perspective. The Nikolai Nedelchev Collection” opens at the Struktura Gallery in Sofia

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s European Parliament election: PM has not broken campaign rules, election commission says

May 10, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Bulgarian European elections 2019, Kornelia Ninova

The Central Election Commission has rejected a claim by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) that Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has

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Bulgaria 

Exhibition ‘The Rediscovered World of Old Europe’ opens at Plovdiv Archaeological Museum on May 14

May 10, 2019May 13, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology, Plovdiv

An exhibition entitled “The Rediscovered World of Old Europe” displaying archaeological discoveries from all over Bulgaria – with an insured

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