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Western Balkans Band BG to play Plovdiv’s Ancient Theatre on June 1

March 12, 2019March 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

The Western Balkans Band BG will have a concert at the Ancient Theatre in Bulgaria’s second city Plovdiv on June

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria anti-trust watchdog’s latest fuel market analysis finds no collusion

March 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said said that it has completed its latest analysis of the petrol and

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria formally opens tender for Belene strategic investor

March 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Belene, energy

Bulgaria’s Energy Ministry has formally invited letters of interest in the tender to pick a strategic investor for the restart

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria had youngest first-time mothers in EU in 2017 – Eurostat

March 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

On average, Bulgarian women have their first baby at the age of 26.1 years, making them the youngest first-time mothers

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Bulgaria 

Police in Bulgaria’s Bourgas hold British armed robbery suspect with 53 identities

March 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bourgas

Police in the Bulgarian Black Sea city of Bourgas have arrested a 41-year-old British citizen wanted in the UK on

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Bulgaria 

Statistics institute: In three years, housing prices in Sofia rose 34%, in Plovdiv 31.4%

March 12, 2019March 13, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv, Sofia

Housing prices in Bulgaria increased by about 25 per cent in the three years between the third quarters of 2015

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Bulgaria 

Belgian artist Jan Fabre’s first solo exhibition in Bulgaria opens on March 22

March 12, 2019March 13, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The first solo exhibition in Bulgaria by Belgian artist Jan Fabre, one of the most important visual and theatre artists

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Bulgaria 

Art exhibition ‘Listen to us – Artistic intelligence’ opens in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv on April 4

March 11, 2019March 13, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

An exhibition entitled “Listen to us – Artistic intelligence”, of works by more than 40 artists who grew up in

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria – US negotiations on F-16s ‘could end in July’, aircraft arrive in 2023 at the earliest

March 11, 2019March 13, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Negotiations between the governments of Bulgaria and the United States on the acquisition of F-16 fighter jets could conclude in

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