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Interior Ministry advises on Serbian motorcycle club visiting Bulgaria

August 4, 2024August 4, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

A Serbian motorcycle club is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a Balkan tour that is passing through Bulgaria from August

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry to temporarily suspend issuing visas

August 2, 2024August 2, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

From August 9 to 18, Bulgarian diplomatic and consular missions will not accept applications for visas and for Bulgarian passports

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Bulgaria 

Allegra Festival and Academy: Photo gallery

August 2, 2024August 2, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

The 10th Allegra Festival and Academy, held in Sofia from July 6 to 22, was a resounding success, prompting audiences

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Bulgaria 

Market Links poll: Borissov’s GERB-UDF has clear lead

August 1, 2024August 1, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria elections 2024

Were Bulgaria to hold parliamentary elections now, Boiko Borissov’s centre-right GERB-UDF coalition would get 23 per cent of the votes

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry advises citizens not to travel to Israel

August 1, 2024August 1, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Israel

Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry has issued a statement saying that “in connection with the dynamically developing security situation in the Middle

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s road accident death toll in January-July 2024 is 246

August 1, 2024August 1, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

A total of 246 people died in accidents on Bulgaria’s roads between January 1 and July 31 2024, according to

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Bulgaria 

Climatologist: Bulgaria faces warmest summer on record

July 31, 2024July 31, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Climatologist Georgi Rachev said in a television interview that this will be Bulgaria’s warmest summer since there have been meteorological

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria again extends humanitarian aid scheme for people displaced from Ukraine

July 31, 2024July 31, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

Meeting on July 31, Bulgaria’s caretaker government granted the latest in a succession of extensions of the humanitarian aid scheme

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Bulgaria’s caretaker Cabinet asks Parliament to ratify air policing deal with Türkiye

July 31, 2024July 31, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Nato, Turkey, Türkiye

Bulgaria’s caretaker Cabinet agreed on July 31 to ask the National Assembly to ratify a memorandum of understanding on cross-border

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