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Bulgaria’s President schedules consultations after government submits resignation

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Roumen Radev

Bulgarian head of state President Roumen Radev scheduled two days of consultations with the country’s seven parliamentary groups on June

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Bulgaria 

NSI: Number of newspapers in Bulgaria continued to shrink in 2021

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Media

A total of 201 newspapers were published in Bulgaria in 2021, eight fewer than in 2020, according to figures published

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Bulgaria 

Kunchev: New wave of Covid-19 in Bulgaria to peak in two to three weeks

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria is already in a new wave of Covid-19, Chief State Health Inspector Angel Kunchev told Nova Televizia in an

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Bulgaria 

Twenty-two Covid-19 deaths in Bulgaria in past week, as morbidity rate climbs

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The deaths of 22 people in Bulgaria who had tested positive for Covid-19 were registered in the past week, bringing

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Petkov sets stark lines for talks on future government

June 26, 2022June 26, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov

The co-leader of Bulgaria’s We Continue the Change (WCC) party, Prime Minister Kiril Petkov, set out on June 26 the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s government ministers deny supplying weapons to Ukraine

June 26, 2022June 26, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

Several members of Bulgaria’s government have queued up to deny that the country is supplying weapons to Ukraine. The reactions

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Bulgaria 

Ivanov: WCC will again nominate Petkov to be Bulgaria’s PM

June 26, 2022June 26, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov

The We Continue the Change (WCC) party will again nominate Kiril Petkov to be Prime Minister when the party proposes

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria eases requirements for foreign students admission to universities

June 26, 2022June 26, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff

Changes to an ordinance on the state requirements for admission of students to higher education institutions provide for Bulgarian universities

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM welcomes Parliament’s move on lifting veto on N Macedonia’s EU talks

June 24, 2022June 24, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Macedonia

Speaking in Brussels on June 24, Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov welcomed as “really responsible” the vote by Parliament earlier

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