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Nato concludes contracts for a further $1.2B in artillery ammunition

January 23, 2024January 23, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Ukraine

Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and general manager of the Nato Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) Stacy Cummings concluded contracts

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President Radev challenges appointment of Constitutional Court judges

January 23, 2024January 23, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev said on January 23 that he asked the country’s Constitutional Court to rule on whether the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to participate in Nato’s Steadfast Defender exercise, largest in decades

January 22, 2024January 22, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Nato

Bulgaria is to participate in Nato’s Exercise Steadfast Defender 2024, the Alliance’s largest in decades, with about 90 000 forces

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Bulgaria 

WCC-DB MPs table bill to transfer Russian holiday complex to Bulgarian state ownership

January 22, 2024January 22, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Russia

Two MPs for the We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria parliamentary group have drafted legislation that, if approved, would see the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria nominates Kuneva as its candidate Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria is nominating Meglena Kuneva, the country’s first European Commissioner and who formerly has held Cabinet posts, as its candidate

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s districts of Plovdiv and Gabrovo declare influenza epidemics

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

An influenza epidemic declaration is to be in effect in Bulgaria’s districts of Plovdiv and Gabrovo from January 22 to

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Parliament elects Atanassova, Belazelkov to Constitutional Court

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

In a vote on January 19, Bulgaria’s Parliament elected Dessislava Atanassova, until recently the leader of the parliamentary group of

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria issues weather warnings over snow forecast for January 20

January 19, 2024January 19, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

The Code Orange warning of dangerous weather has been issued for several districts in Bulgaria for January 20 because of

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Bulgaria 

European prosecutors probe VAT fraud in six countries, including Bulgaria

January 18, 2024January 18, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) carried out 25 searches and other investigative measures in six countries on January 17,

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