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Beach battles: Bulgarian Deputy PM complains to Prosecutor-General about Tourism Minister

June 6, 2018June 6, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff tourism, Valeri Simeonov

The strange spectacle of the confrontation between Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov and Tourism Minister Nikolina Angelkova continued on

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian parliamentary finance committee greenlights fighter jet, armoured vehicle acquisitions

June 6, 2018June 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Krassimir Karakachanov, Nato

The Bulgarian National Assembly’s committee on the budget and finance approved on June 6 the 3.5 billion leva proposed projects

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Red Cross: Enough lifesavers for Bulgaria’s beaches in summer 2018

June 6, 2018June 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

There are sufficient trained lifesavers to be on duty at Bulgaria’s beaches and swimming pools in summer 2018, according to

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Bulgaria 

Row in Bulgaria’s Parliament over replacement of 800 ‘Turkish-Arabic’ place names in Stara Zagora

June 6, 2018June 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

There were heated moments in Bulgaria’s National Assembly on June 6 when the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) condemned

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian parliamentary defence committee approves 3.5BN leva military modernisation projects

June 5, 2018June 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Krassimir Karakachanov, Nato

The Bulgarian National Assembly’s defence committee voted on June 5 to approve 3.5 billion leva military modernisation projects involving the

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Plovdiv Mediaeval Festival 2018 to be held on June 23-24

June 5, 2018June 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The Plovdiv Mediaeval Festival will be held on June 23 and 24 2018 at Mladezhkiya Hulm (“Youth Hill”) in Bulgaria’s

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Bulgaria 

Sofia Pride 2018: Customary condemnations – and calls of support

June 5, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Pride

In the run-up to the annual Sofia Pride, the 2018 event is seeing the customary calls for it to be

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Bulgaria 

Counting the cost after torrential rains, ‘tornado’ hit Bulgaria’s Varna and villages

June 5, 2018June 7, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff Varna

More than 100 million leva would be needed to avert Varna being flooded after intense rainfall of the kind that

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Traffic Police join in EU-wide operation against drink-driving

June 5, 2018June 6, 2018 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Traffic Police are conducting a countrywide operation to check motorists for drink-driving or driving under the influence of illegal

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