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Bulgaria’s Tourism Minister: Visits by foreign tourists to Plovdiv up 6.5% in January-August 2019

November 13, 2019November 13, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Visits by foreign tourists to Plovdiv, the Bulgarian city holding the European Capital of Culture 2019, were 6.5 per cent

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Bulgaria extends deadline for updated offers to supply new naval patrol vessels

November 12, 2019November 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

The deadline for bidders who have applied to supply Bulgaria with two new naval patrol vessels to update their offers

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Bulgaria condemns ‘Islamic Jihad’ rocket attacks targeting civilians in Israel

November 12, 2019November 14, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Israel

Bulgaria denounces the firing of rockets against populated areas and targeting of civilians, the Foreign Ministry in Sofia said on

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Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia in top five EU net personal transfer recipients again in 2018

November 12, 2019November 17, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Three European Union member states in south-eastern Europe were once again among the largest net recipients of personal transfers in

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Bulgaria’s exports in January – September 2019 up by 3.2% on annual basis – NSI

November 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff macroeconomic indicators

The value of Bulgaria’s exports in January – September 2019 amounted to 42 636.7 million leva, 3.2 per cent higher

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Mayor of Bulgaria’s Nessebur transported from custody to be sworn in

November 11, 2019November 14, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgaria local elections 2019

In a packed municipal hall in Bulgaria’s seaside town of Nessebur, Nikolai Dimitrov was sworn in on November 11 for

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Court amends Sofia city hall air pollution orders

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Sofia City Court has ruled to amend its earlier decision, handed down in July, detailing the requirements on Sofia city

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Archaeologists: ‘Church’ found at Bulgaria’s Trapezitsa site ‘may have been Synagogue’

November 11, 2019November 13, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

A building the remnants of which were found near the Trapezitsa Fortress site in Bulgaria’s north-western city of Veliko Turnovo

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Bulgarian leaders speak on 30th anniversary of fall of communism

November 10, 2019November 12, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Roumen Radev

The past 30 years have been the best thing in Bulgaria’s recent history, Prime Minister Boiko Borissov said on November

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