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European prosecutors lodge indictment of suspect over agricultural subsidy fraud in Bulgaria

March 27, 2024March 27, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Public Prosecutor’s Office in Sofia has filed an indictment against one suspect for subsidy fraud, following an investigation

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Borissov: GERB-UDF will not participate in further attempts to form a government

March 26, 2024March 26, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

In a lengthy letter to We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria on March 26, GERB-UDF leader Boiko Borissov said that his

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Interior Minister: All Bulgaria’s international airports ready for Schengen

March 26, 2024March 26, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Schengen

All of Bulgaria’s international airports are fully ready for the implementation of Schengen zone procedures, outgoing Interior Minister Kalin Stoyanov

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We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria in new proposal to GERB-UDF on government

March 26, 2024March 26, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

The We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria coalition has made a new offer to Boiko Borissov’s GERB-UDF coalition on a proposed

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Parliament to hold special sitting after Gabriel officially refuses to be PM

March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

The Speaker of Bulgaria’s National Assembly Rosen Zhelyazkov has convened a special sitting of Parliament, to be held on March

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Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry, BNB, launch website in Bulgarian and English on euro changeover

March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Ministry of Finance and central Bulgarian National Bank have launched an information website dedicated to the introduction of the

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European Commission approves 170M leva in state aid for Bulgarian farmers

March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

The European Commission said on March 25 that it has approved 170 million leva, or about 86.9 million euro, in

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Bulgaria 

Eurostat: Three regions in Bulgaria had highest death rate in EU in 2021

March 25, 2024March 25, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

The three regions in the European Union with the highest standardised death rate in 2021 were all in Bulgaria, EU

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Bulgaria’s political crisis: Outgoing PM in televised appeal to GERB-UDF

March 24, 2024March 24, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

A few hours after Boiko Borissov’s GERB-UDF announced that it was “all over” for negotiations on a new government, outgoing

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