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Month: June 2012

Business Europe News 

European Commission proposes measures against tax fraud and evasion

June 28, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Minimum sanctions for tax crimes, a cross-border tax identification number, a European Union tax-payer’s charter and stronger common measures against tax

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Bulgaria 

OECD warns that euro zone crisis is hurting immigration

June 28, 2012June 28, 2012 Lisa Bryant of VOANews

The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, OECD,  reports Europe’s economic crisis is taking a toll on immigration, cutting

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Bulgaria News 

Human Rights Watch asks Bulgaria to denounce calls to stone gays

June 27, 2012June 27, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Human Rights Watch asked Bulgaria’s Justice Minister Diana Kovacheva to denounce an orthodox priest’s calls that anyone participating in the

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgaria moves to grant refugees EU resident status

June 27, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Cabinet approved on June 27 amendments to the Foreigners Act that will give refugees and other beneficiaries of international

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Business 

Bulgarian Development Bank has 200 million leva to lend to SMEs – report

June 27, 2012June 27, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Development Bank (BDB) had secured 200 million leva that it hoped to lend to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)

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Bulgaria Europe News World 

Bulgarian among 24 arrested in international operation against ‘carding’ group

June 27, 2012June 27, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

A Bulgarian was among 24 people arrested in a major international operation against a “carding” scheme, offences in which the

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Business Europe News 

Key European leaders call for tighter financial control

June 26, 2012May 22, 2013 VOANews

Key European leaders are calling for much tighter central control of spending by the 17 countries that use the euro

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Europe News Perspectives 

Russia Watch: Putin the Permissive and Russian football hooligans

June 26, 2012June 2, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Poland, Russia

The world may indeed be flat. Several thousand Russians recently traveled to the western edge of their country – and

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News World 

Erdogan warns Damascus of Turkey’s ‘wrath’

June 26, 2012June 26, 2012 Dorian Jones of VOANews

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is ratcheting up the pressure on Syria over the shooting down of a Turkish

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