Bulgarian deputy PM’s verbal assault on Russian Patriarch sparks row in ‘United Patriots’
After Bulgaria’s Deputy Prime Minister and nationalist United Patriots co-leader Valeri Simeonov hit out in a television interview against Russian
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Author: The Sofia Globe staff
Bulgaria records 3.6% economic growth in 2017
Bulgaria’s economy grew by 3.6 per cent last year, based on preliminary data, the country’s National Statistics Institute (NSI) said
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EU defence ministers agree implementation plan for closer military co-operation
EU ministers of defence have formally adopted a list of 17 projects for “permanent structured co-operation” (PESCO) in the field
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Bulgarian government grants 15 000 euro to Poland’s Auschwitz-Birkenau Foundation
The Bulgarian Cabinet announced on March 7 that it had approved a grant of 15 000 euro to the Auschwitz-Birkenau
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Bulgarian government retracts approval of Istanbul Convention
Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov’s Cabinet has retracted its approval of the Istanbul Convention and withdrawn its request to Parliament
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Bulgarian deputy PM Simeonov: Russian Patriarch Kirill is ‘second-rate Soviet cop’
Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov sharply criticised Russian Patriarch Kirill for seeking to impose the Kremlin’s view of the
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March 2018: An open letter from the Shalom Organization of the Jews in Bulgaria – ‘We Remember’
Open Letter: ‘We Remember’ In this momentous year of 2018: We remember how, 75 years ago, the vast majority of
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Rail strike in Greece, taxi drivers strike in protest against Uber, on March 6
Train services in Greece were disrupted on March 6 as rail workers went on a 24-hour strike, while in Athens,
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Exhibition by photographer Doron Ritter opens at the Hungarian Cultural Institute in Sofia
An exhibition by Hungarian photographer Doron Ritter of scenes and people of one of Jerusalem’s oldest Jewish neighbourhoods, Mea She’arim,
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