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Bulgarian PM Borissov offers Greece help to fight wildfires

July 24, 2018July 25, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Greece

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on July 24 that he had spoken on the telephone with his Greek counterpart

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Bulgaria 

New ‘Code Orange’ dangerous weather alert for rain in Bulgaria, for July 24

July 23, 2018July 24, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

The cold and rainy summer shows no sign of abating, as a new cold weather front entered Bulgaria, prompting yet

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Bulgaria 

Archaeology: 2018 season excavations begin at Kastritsi Fortress at Bulgaria’s Euxinograd Palace

July 23, 2018July 25, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff archaeology

Archaeologists are opening the 2018 summer dig season at the Kastritsi fortified settlement site at Euxinograd Palace, just north of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to erect fence at Romanian border to counter spread of African swine fever

July 23, 2018July 24, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff African Swine Fever, Romania

Clearing of land to enable the building of a fence at the Romanian border has begun, to prevent the movement

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PM Borissov: Bulgaria ‘only country in EU that has coped with migrants’

July 20, 2018July 23, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Europe migrant crisis, Kornelia Ninova, Refugees

To date, Bulgaria is the only country in the European Union that has coped with migrants and has even been

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Agriculture Minister: Outbreaks of ovine rinderpest in five settlements

July 20, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Agriculture Minister Roumen Porozhanov said on July 20 that there were outbreaks of ovine rinderpest in five settlements. These

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Bulgaria 

Mogherini nominates Bulgaria’s Kuneva to EU post at Council of Europe

July 20, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini has nominated Meglena Kuneva, a former European Commissioner from Bulgaria and a former Cabinet

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Bulgaria 

EC opens three new infringement proceedings against Bulgaria

July 19, 2018July 19, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

The European Commission opened three new infringement proceedings against Bulgaria, while moving forward a fourth one, in the latest monthly

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s anti-trust regulator blocks proposed sale of CEZ assets

July 19, 2018July 23, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) ruled on July 19 to deny the proposed sale of all the assets

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