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 "slug": "bulgaria-seven-minehunters-belgium-netherlands-transfer",
 "title": "Bulgaria Signs at Ankara for Seven Belgian and Dutch Minehunters, Transferred Free of Charge",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/bulgaria-seven-minehunters-belgium-netherlands-transfer/",
 "canonical": "https://www.grosswald.org/bulgaria-seven-minehunters-belgium-netherlands-transfer/",
 "type": "dispatch",
 "published": "2026-07-08T21:33:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-07-29T18:55:07.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * Bulgarian Defence Minister Dimitar Stoyanov signed a memorandum with Belgium's Theo Francken and the Netherlands' Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius at the Ankara NATO summit for the transfer of seven mine-countermeasure vessels\n * Three Dutch Alkmaar-class and four Belgian Flower-class hulls — both national variants of the shared Tripartite-class design — pass to Sofia free of charge\n * The hulls become surplus as Belgium and the Netherlands take delivery of twelve new vessels, s",
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 "sources": [],
 "entities": [
  "france",
  "italy",
  "nato",
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