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Bulgaria’s Finance Minister: Plot to stoke hysteria over flour and sugar

March 13, 2022March 15, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

There is information that hysteria is to be stoked to trigger panic-buying of flour and sugar, in the same way

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria has ample sunflower oil, but tensions simmer as prices soar

March 12, 2022March 14, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

The sunflower oil saga in Bulgaria is continuing, after prices soared in recent days, with a special price offer by

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Bulgaria 

Close to 70 000 Ukrainians entered Bulgaria in past fortnight – operational HQ

March 12, 2022March 14, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

A total of 69 735 Ukrainian citizens have entered Bulgaria since February 24, and 33 516 remain in the country,

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Bulgaria 

PM Petkov: EU leaders support Bulgaria’s proposal for cohesion fund for refugees from Ukraine

March 11, 2022March 13, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Kiril Petkov, Russia, Ukraine

A proposal by Bulgaria for a cohesion fund for refugees from Ukraine so that the EU jointly will bear the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party ministers opposed deployment of Dutch F-35s to Bulgaria – MP

March 11, 2022March 13, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

At a Cabinet meeting this week, ministers from the Bulgarian Socialist Party opposed the deployment of eight Netherlands Air Force

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Europe 

EU fast-tracks emergency macro-financial assistance to Ukraine

March 11, 2022March 11, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

The European Commission said that it had on March 11 disbursed 300 million ero in emergency Macro-Financial Assistance (MFA) to

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Europe 

EU leaders ask Commission for opinion on Ukraine’s membership application

March 11, 2022March 11, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

European Union heads of government and state have asked the European Commission to give its opinion on Ukraine’s application to

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Bulgaria 

Forex bureaux in Bulgaria not accepting roubles, hryvni – report

March 10, 2022March 12, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Russia, Ukraine

The trade in Russian roubles and Ukrainian hryvni at foreign exchange bureaux in Bulgaria has dropped to zero, Bulgarian National

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Europe 

Ukraine: EC proposes further Frontex support for migration management in Moldova

March 10, 2022March 10, 2022 The Sofia Globe staff Moldova, Romania, Russia, Ukraine

The European Commission (EC) has recommended to the Council of the EU to open negotiations for a status agreement between

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