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Nathaniel Copsey to be new UK ambassador to Bulgaria

March 22, 2024March 22, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Nathaniel Copsey has been appointed His Majesty’s Ambassador to Bulgaria in succession to Dr Rob Dixon, ambassador since September 2020,

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Bulgaria 

Eurostat: Close to two-thirds of births in Bulgaria in 2022 were extramarital

March 22, 2024March 22, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

Close to two-thirds of births in Bulgaria in 2022 were outside marriage, according to new data posted by European Union

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19 in Bulgaria: Omicron strain found in all 84 samples – NCIPD

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases (NCIPD) said that it has completed the sequencing of the latest group

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria: Stalemate over resumption of talks on a government continues

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

GERB-UDF and We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria are communicating with each about conditions for the resumption of talks on a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport announces 2024 summer flight schedule

March 21, 2024March 21, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Airport

SOF Connect, the operator of Sofia Airport in Bulgaria’s capital city, has announced the start of the summer schedule at

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Bulgaria 

Question mark hangs over resumption of talks on a new Bulgarian government

March 20, 2024March 20, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

The day after an impassioned row between the We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria and GERB-UDF coalitions, there were politicians on

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Bulgaria 

We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria infuriated at GERB-UDF over proposed government

March 19, 2024March 19, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

The leadership of the We Continue the Change-Democratic Bulgaria coalition hit out at GERB-UDF in sharply-worded statements at a news

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria: GERB-UDF’s Maria Gabriel presents proposed government

March 19, 2024March 19, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff

GERB-UDF’s Prime Minister-designate Maria Gabriel presented a proposed government to President Roumen Radev on March 19, though there was no

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Bulgarian Orthodox Church to elect new Patriarch on June 30

March 19, 2024March 19, 2024 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

A Patriarchal Electoral Church Council will meet on June 30 to elect a new Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church,

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