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Bulgaria raises Schengen membership issue during Steinmeier visit to Sofia

March 10, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev, Schengen

Bulgaria has met the technical criteria for joining the European Union’s Schengen visa zone and this had been confirmed by

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Bulgaria 

Military assisting in snow-blocked areas, head of Kurdzhali road management fired

March 10, 2015March 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Military vehicles and personnel were continuing to assist in rescue and recovery efforts in areas of Bulgaria’s Rhodope mountains in

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Bulgaria 

Southern Bulgaria on slow path to recovery after heavy snowfall crisis

March 10, 2015March 11, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Emergency efforts were continuing on March 10 to restore power to parts of southern Bulgaria hardest-hit by the vast tonnage

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Anniversary of prevention of deportation of Bulgarian Jews to Nazi death camps marked in Sofia

March 10, 2015March 10, 2016 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

Bulgaria marked on March 10 2015 the 72nd anniversary of the prevention of the deportation of Bulgarian Jews to Holocaust

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria among three EU countries to exceed 2020 renewable energy targets – Eurostat

March 10, 2015March 11, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Three European Union member states – Bulgaria, Estonia and Sweden – had exceeded their renewable energy targets for 2020 in

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Bulgaria 

Germany ready to assist Bulgaria in necessary reforms – Steinmeier

March 10, 2015March 11, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Germany is ready to provide assistance for the necessary reforms in Bulgaria, German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said in Sofia

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Bulgaria 

Plovdiv wins 740 000 euro project to digitise cultural heritage

March 10, 2015March 11, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Plovdiv municipality has been awarded 740 000 euro by the Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area to digitise close

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Justice Ministry proposes criminal law changes to fight terrorism

March 10, 2015March 11, 2015 Independent Balkan News Agency

The Bulgarian Ministry of Justice published on March 10 proposed amendments to the Penal Code with the main aim of

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Bulgaria 

Five regions in southern Bulgaria still in difficulties over snowfall

March 10, 2015March 10, 2015 The Sofia Globe staff

Hundreds of villages and small towns in southern Bulgaria began March 10 without electricity and with blocked local roads as

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