Three Nato ships conducting Black Sea patrols visit Bulgaria’s Bourgas
Three Nato ships currently conducting patrols in the Black Sea are visiting Bulgaria’s port city of Bourgas from February 9
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Bulgarian President dismisses head of National Protection Service
Bulgarian President Roumen Radev has signed the decree dismissing the head of the National Protection Service Angel Antonov, the presidency
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Bulgaria’s team of 21 in Pyeongchang as XXIII Winter Olympic Games open
A lavish ceremony with a cast of 2000 marked the February 9 opening of the XXIII Winter Olympic Games in
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Sofia to use site of Bulgarian former dictator Dimitrov’s mausoleum for underground art gallery
Sofia City Council voted on February 8 to turn the underground spaces at the site where late communist dictator Georgi
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Online petition calls on Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit to condemn ‘Lukov March’
A new online petition is calling on Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit to speak out against the “Lukov March” planned
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EC winter forecast nudges down Bulgaria’s 2018 growth estimate
The European Commission’s winter forecast for the EU economy, released on February 7, estimated that Bulgaria’s economy would continue growing
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Number of Bulgarian MEPs to be unchanged in post-Brexit European Parliament
Members of the European Parliament voted on February 7 to approve changes to the number of seats in the legislature
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EU leaders invite Turkish president Erdoğan to ‘leaders’ meeting’ in Bulgaria’s Varna in March 2018
European Council President Donald Tusk and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker have written to Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan inviting
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Plovdiv, European Capital of Culture 2019: Call for ‘small projects’ proposals
The Plovdiv 2019 Foundation has announced an open call for small projects to be part of the city’s place as
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