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Bulgaria welcomes normalisation of relations between Israel and Bahrain

September 12, 2020September 13, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Israel

The decision announced by Israel and Bahrain that they will normalise mutual relations, which was achieved with the decisive mediation

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Bulgaria’s path to euro: ECB to directly supervise five Bulgarian banks

September 12, 2020September 14, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff euro zone

The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced the list of banks in Bulgaria which will be subject to direct supervision

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Bulgaria’s accommodation establishments’ revenue down 64.6% in July 2020 y/y

September 11, 2020September 13, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus, tourism

Revenue from nights spent in accommodation establishments in Bulgaria in July 2020 was 122.4 million leva (about 62.5 million euro),

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Bulgaria’s 2020 Sofia Science Festival: The Programme

September 11, 2020September 29, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia Science Festival

This is the full programme of the Sofia Science Festival’s events in English on September 26 and 27. The festival,

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Bulgaria’s Covid-19 death toll corrected after technical error – Health Ministry

September 11, 2020September 12, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s death toll among patients who had tested positive for new coronavirus has been corrected after a Health Ministry check

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Bulgaria ‘VAT gap’ shrank in 2018 – European Commission

September 10, 2020September 12, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission, new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s “VAT gap”, the difference between expected value-added tax revenue and the amount actually collected, was 614 million euro in

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Covid-19: Germany removes Bulgaria’s Dobrich district from high-risk areas list

September 10, 2020September 10, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Germany, new coronavirus

Germany has removed the district of Dobrich in north-eastern Bulgaria from its list of high-risk areas, Bulgaria’s Foreign Ministry said

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Antisemitism in Bulgaria: Nine complaints in 2019, one prosecution, no convictions

September 10, 2020September 12, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

For a second year running, no one was convicted of antisemitic crimes in Bulgaria in 2019, though the year saw

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Second ‘national uprising’ anti-government protest in Bulgaria’s capital Sofia

September 10, 2020September 11, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

People from various places in Bulgaria joined what organisers billed as the “Grand National Uprising 2” protest in Sofia on

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