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Government: Nine per cent of university students in Bulgaria are foreigners

December 23, 2024December 23, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Nine per cent of the students at Bulgarian higher educational institutions are foreigners, according to a regular report presented at

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ALDE moves to expel Peevski’s MRF

December 23, 2024December 23, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Delyan Peevski

The ALDE party bureau has unanimously voted to recommend the expulsion of ALDE party member Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF) in

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Market Links poll sees seven-group Parliament

December 23, 2024December 23, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Close to two months after Bulgaria’s latest early parliamentary elections, a Market Links poll – the results of which were

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Bulgaria’s Vitosha to officially open ski season on December 26

December 20, 2024December 20, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff tourism

The official start of the ski season on Bulgaria’s Vitosha mountain, on the outskirts of capital city Sofia, will be

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Bulgaria’s Radev congratulates Orbán on ‘his sober assessment of the geopolitical processes and the challenges we face’

December 20, 2024December 20, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff energy, Hungary, Roumen Radev, Ukraine

Bulgarian President Roumen Radev, speaking on December 20 at a joint briefing in Sofia with his guest Hungarian Prime Minister

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Bulgaria 

Nato chief Rutte thanks Bulgaria: ‘Immense contribution to shared security’

December 19, 2024December 19, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Ukraine

Visiting Bulgaria on December 19 for the first time as Nato Secretary General, Mark Rutte expressed his thanks to the

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Bulgaria 

Debacle scuppers signing of Bulgaria’s security agreement with Ukraine

December 19, 2024December 19, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Dimitar Glavchev, Nikolai Denkov, Ukraine

The debacle that is scuppering the signing of a security cooperation agreement between Bulgaria and Ukraine continued on December 19,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria: Borissov tight-lipped on negotiations on a government

December 19, 2024December 19, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Boiko Borissov, leader of the centre-right GERB-UDF coalition – the largest group in Bulgaria’s 51st National Assembly and which thus

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Bulgaria 

Spoke in the wheel of signing of Bulgaria’s security agreement with Ukraine

December 18, 2024December 18, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

The scheduled signing of a 10-year security agreement between Bulgaria and Ukraine appears doomed not to go ahead for now

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