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No serious migrant pressure on Bulgaria, PM tells EC President

March 1, 2020March 2, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Greece, Syrian refugees, Turkey

Migrant pressure on Bulgaria is not serious at the moment and the situation at the country’s border with Turkey is

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM discusses Syria crisis, refugees with Greek counterpart

February 28, 2020March 2, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Greece, Syria, Syrian refugees, Turkey

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov discussed the crisis in Syria and the situation with migrants in a telephone conversation with

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian government approves plan to deepen tourism co-operation with Greece

January 23, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Greece, tourism

Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on January 23 a draft joint action programme between the tourism ministries of Bulgaria and Greece in

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Bulgaria 

Greece restricts traffic at three border checkpoints with Bulgaria as heavy snowfall forecast

January 4, 2020January 6, 2020 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

Greek authorities have announced that as of 6am on January 5, no vehicles with a load capacity of more than

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian PM concerned by ‘division’ in North Macedonia on EU

November 15, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Borissov, Greece, Macedonia

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has told an annual summit in the Greek city of Thessaloniki that he is concerned

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Greek Orthodox Church recognises Ukrainian Orthodox Church as independent

October 12, 2019October 15, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece, Ukraine

The governing body of the Greek Orthodox Church, its Holy Synod, took a formal decision on October 12 to recognise

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Bulgaria, Greece sign contracts for gas inter-connector pipeline

October 10, 2019October 12, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency energy, Greece

Bulgaria’s Energy Minister Temenouzhka Petkova and her Greek counterpart Kostis Hatzidakis signed a number of contracts for the Bulgaria-Greece natural

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Bulgaria 

Greece busts group that recruited pregnant women from Bulgaria in illegal adoption scheme

September 26, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff Greece

Greek law enforcement authorities, supported by EU police agency Europol, dismantled on September 23 an organised crime group involved in

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Bulgaria 

Zaharieva, Dendias confirm strategic relationship between Bulgaria and Greece

September 12, 2019 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Bulgarian Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zaharieva and Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, who began his tour of

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