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Bulgaria completes dredging project to deepen Danube for shipping

July 24, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency

A 42-day project to deepen a stretch of the Danube River to ease the passage of shipping in the most

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Bulgaria 

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 

Fighting each other on Bulgaria’s beaches: Siderov and Simeonov

July 23, 2018July 24, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Valeri Simeonov, Volen Siderov

The tensions between two of the co-leaders of Bulgarian government minority partner the United Patriots are continuing to surge. The

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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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Bulgaria 

Change of stance as Cabinet adopts report that does not see Russia as threat to EU, Bulgaria

July 23, 2018July 24, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Russia

The 2017 annual report on national security, adopted by the government and yet to be approved by Parliament, does not

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Bulgaria 

Refugee centres in Bulgaria ‘almost empty’ – report

July 21, 2018July 24, 2018 Independent Balkan News Agency Europe migrant crisis, Refugees

Refugee centres in Bulgaria are almost empty and there has been a significant decline in applications for protection, Bulgarian National

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Bulgaria 

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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