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Month: June 2012

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Europe News World 

Flame malware: Hard-drive horror

June 19, 2012June 19, 2012 Niklas Jakobsson of The Budapest Times

The recent discovery of the Flame malware is the latest in a series of revelations about malicious software that suggest

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Bulgarian soldiers holding Kalashnikov semi automatic rifles
Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian military to cut 2700 jobs after July 1 – report

June 19, 2012June 19, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s armed forces are to dismiss 2400 military personnel, out of a total 2700 job cuts, from July 1 2012,

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Kosovo PM Hashim Thaci meeting Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev
Bulgaria Europe News 

Kosovo PM Thaçi sees European future, invites Bulgarian investors

June 19, 2012May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Kosovo

Kosovo prime minister Hashim Thaçi is visiting Bulgaria with a message of optimism about his country’s European future, undeterred by

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Business Europe News World 

Obama, G20 press Europe on economic plan

June 19, 2012May 27, 2013 Kent Klein of VOANews euro zone

Europe’s financial crisis took center stage on Monday as the Group of 20 economic summit began in Mexico.  President Barack

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Business 

Molson Coors closes acquisition of Eastern European brewers, Kamenitza included

June 18, 2012June 18, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Denver-based Molson Coors, estimated as the world’s fifth-largest beer brewer by volume, said on June 18 that it has closed

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Business Europe News 

Young Czech bank eyes CEE markets

June 18, 2012May 27, 2013 Emily Thompson of The Prague Post Czech Republic

Three new banks were launched on the local market last year, offering stripped-down, online retail banking products that quickly began

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Europe News 

Hungarian government signals end to IMF deadlock

June 18, 2012May 27, 2013 Robert Hodgson of The Budapest Times Hungary, IMF

The government looked set this week to capitulate over controversial legislation that is blocking the commencement of formal negotiations for

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria charges 13 alleged ‘radical Islamists’

June 18, 2012June 18, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Following a joint operation in 2010 by Bulgaria’s Interior Ministry and the State Agency for National Security, 13 alleged members

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Bulgaria News 

Negotiations on Forestry Act amendments reach a dead end

June 18, 2012June 18, 2012 Hristina Dimitrova

Negotiations on June 18, attended by Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, Agriculture Minister Miroslav Naidenov and representatives of environmentalist groups on

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