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New art gallery to open in Plovdiv’s Gladstone Street on September 2

August 23, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

Plovdiv’s new 2019 Exhibition Hall, built on the site of a previously-demolished art gallery in Gladstone Street, is to open

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria railways offering vintage steam train excursion on September 6

August 23, 2019August 27, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff BDZ, tourism

Bulgarian state railways BDZ is offering an excursion on a narrow-gauge train, pulled by a Polish-made locomotive dating from 1949,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria generates 435kg municipal waste per person – Eurostat

August 22, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria generated an average of 435kg of municipal waste per person in 2017, below the European Union average, EU statistics

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Bulgaria 

ASF: Bulgaria’s payment of 300 leva aid to farmers who culled pigs to begin after September 1

August 21, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff African Swine Fever

Payment of one-off aid of 300 leva (about 150 euro) to farmers who have disinfected their smallholding farms after complying

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Bulgaria 

Police probe ‘blue light’ on Bulgarian Orthodox Church Metropolitan’s car

August 21, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church, Plovdiv

Police in Sofia and in Plovdiv have begun an investigation following the publication of a photograph of an official car

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Traffic Police: More than 44 500 speeding violations in a week

August 21, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Traffic Police detected more than 44 500 violations of speed limits across the country during a week-long special speed-control

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria receives 13 letters of interest in Belene nuclear station tender

August 20, 2019August 26, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Belene, energy, nuclear

Bulgaria’s Energy Ministry said on August 20 that it has received letters of interest from 13 candidates in its tender

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Bulgaria 

Meeting Jordanian FM, Bulgaria’s PM backs Aqaba Process

August 20, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov held talks on August 20 with visiting Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi, saying that for

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Bulgaria 

ASF: Culling begins at another industrial pig farm in Bulgaria

August 20, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff African Swine Fever

Culling of 4000 pigs at an industrial farm, one of seven in Bulgaria where African Swine Fever (ASF) has been

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