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New delay pushes Sofia Airport concession tender deadline to April 2019

February 3, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Airport

Bulgaria’s Transport Ministry has postponed the deadline for bids in the tender for the 35-year concession on Sofia Airport for

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Bulgaria has lowest percentage among people in EU agreeing that vaccines are safe

February 3, 2019February 5, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

A survey has found that people in Bulgaria are least likely, among all in the European Union, to agree that

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Bulgaria 

‘Be a soldier’: Bulgaria continues recruiting drive to make up shortfall in military

February 3, 2019February 5, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Defence said that its drive to get people to enlist in the military will resume on February

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Number of districts in Bulgaria subject to flu epidemic declaration decreases

February 3, 2019February 5, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The influenza outbreaks that led most districts in Bulgaria to declare epidemics and close schools in the past two weeks

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IMF sees Bulgaria’s preparations to join euro zone as positive factor

February 2, 2019February 4, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff IMF

Commitments made by Bulgaria related to the plan for the country to join the euro zone are seen as a

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Tribute paid on February 1 to victims of communism in Bulgaria

February 1, 2019February 3, 2019 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

In Sofia and various parts of Bulgaria, a number of political leaders and other groups paid tribute on February 1

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Foreign ministers from Sofia and Skopje hold talks in Bucharest

February 1, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Macedonia

Nikola Dimitrov, the foreign minister from Skopje, has expressed thanks to Bulgaria not only for the fact that it was

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Bulgaria’s Bulgartransgaz closes open season on Turkish Stream onshore extension

February 1, 2019February 1, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency energy

Bulgaria’s gas grid operator Bulgartransgaz has finalised the open season process for the planned expansion of the country’s gas transit

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Thirty-four dead on Bulgaria’s roads in first month of 2019

February 1, 2019February 3, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

A total of 34 people died in road accidents in Bulgaria in January 2019, according to provisional figures posted by

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