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Day: September 4, 2012

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UN agencies call for swift international action to prevent repeat of world food crisis

September 4, 2012September 4, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Co-ordinated international action is urgently needed to prevent rising food prices from hurting tens of millions of people over the

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Business Europe News 

European Central Bank may buy bonds

September 4, 2012May 22, 2013 VOANews

The European Central Bank could act this week to buy the bonds of debt-plagued governments in the 17-nation euro currency

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Bulgaria Business Europe News 

European Commission opens antitrust investigation into Gazprom

September 4, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Commission (EC) said on September 4 2012 that it had opened formal proceedings to investigate whether Gazprom, the

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Bulgaria Europe News Perspectives 

Putin’s palaces, yachts, cars and watches: An opposition guide to Russia’s rich and famous

September 4, 2012September 4, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

“I have worked like a galley slave throughout these eight years, morning till night.” Vladimir Putin summing up his first

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Further fallout from Armenian – Azerbaijani – Hungarian controversy over pardoned killer

September 4, 2012September 4, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

About 50 people from the Armenian community in Bulgaria held a protest outside the Hungarian embassy in Sofia on September

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Europe News 

Hungarian government seeks refund of Jewish reparations

September 4, 2012September 4, 2012 The Budapest Times

The Hungarian government is calling for the refund of millions of dollars paid out to the US-based Claims Conference to

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Bulgaria News 

10 traffic cops in Bulgaria’s Rousse fired for taking bribes

September 4, 2012September 4, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Ten traffic police in the Bulgarian city of Rousse have been dismissed for taking bribes, the senior Interior Ministry official

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Bulgaria Business News 

Harsh winter, hot summer push up prices of Bulgarian grapes – and wines and rakiya

September 4, 2012May 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s prolonged below-freezing winter temperatures at the start of 2012, followed by scorching hot weather in summer, mean lower grape

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Bulgaria Business Europe News 

Moody’s lowers ratings outlook for EU

September 4, 2012May 22, 2013 VOANews

Moody’s Investors Service on Monday lowered its ratings outlook for the European Union from stable to negative, as the bloc

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