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Government proposes Brits who apply for Bulgarian passports by end-2020 need not renounce UK citizenship

March 25, 2020March 27, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Brexit

The Bulgarian government is proposing amending the Citizenship Act so that UK citizens who apply for Bulgarian passports before the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to pay Easter bonuses to pensioners below poverty line

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s government decided at a regular meeting on March 25 to pay Easter bonuses of 40 leva (about 20 euro)

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry revises declaration document for intercity travel

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

A new version of the declaration document that motorists in Bulgaria must show to prove that their intercity travel is

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Bulgaria 

Covid-19: Bulgaria’s port of Varna bans crews of vessels from disembarking

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus, Varna

As of March 25, crews of ships being processed at the port of Varna are barred from disembarking from their

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Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport: Most flights cancelled on March 25

March 24, 2020March 26, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus, Sofia Airport

With the vast majority of flights at Bulgaria’s Sofia Airport cancelled on March 25, all of five are scheduled to

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Covid-19: More than 290 000 masks confiscated from smuggler given to Bulgarian Red Cross

March 24, 2020March 26, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

Bulgaria’s Customs Agency has given 294 000 surgical protective masks confiscated from a would-be smuggler to the Bulgarian Red Cross,

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Bulgaria 

Clocks in Bulgaria change to summer daylight saving time at 3am on March 29 2020

March 24, 2020March 26, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff

Summer daylight saving time starts in Bulgaria on March 29 2020 at 3am, when clocks must be adjusted forward an

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Bulgaria 

Crisis staff: 218 cases of Covid-19 confirmed in Bulgaria, including an entire family

March 24, 2020March 25, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff new coronavirus

The number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 in Bulgaria is now 218, crisis staff chief Major-General Ventsislav Mutafchiyski told a

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria welcomes EU ministers’ green light for accession talks with N Macedonia, Albania

March 24, 2020March 25, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Albania, Macedonia

Bulgaria welcomes the decision on March 24 by European Union foreign ministers to give the green light for starting the

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