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Month: September 2012

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Bulgarian government visit to Israel key to investigation into Bourgas Airport terrorist bombing – President Plevneliev

September 11, 2012September 11, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The visit on September 10 and 11 2012 to Israel by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov and a large number

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Bulgaria News 

Coffee protest and a charity campaign: Pernik’s plight after Bulgaria’s May earthquake

September 11, 2012September 11, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

The 5.8 Richter scale earthquake epicentred about nine km outside Pernik damaged an estimated 60 per cent of the houses

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Europe News Perspectives 

Russia Watch: Vlad in Vlad: Forging Russia’s first hot city on the Pacific Rim

September 11, 2012September 11, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

The upside about an enlightened dictator is the enlightenment part. Five years ago, Vladimir Putin took a hard look at

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Bulgaria Business News 

Auditors at Bulgaria’s tax agency uncover millions in hidden income

September 11, 2012September 11, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Audits by Bulgaria’s National Revenue Agency of 900 people uncovered 45 million leva (about 22.5 million euro) in concealed income

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Europe News 

EPP to back Polish PM Tusk’s candidacy for European Commission head – Der Spiegel

September 11, 2012May 22, 2013 The Warsaw Voice

The centre-right European People’s Party (EPP) is considering Poland’s PM Donald Tusk a leading candidate for the next European Commission

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Europe News 

Supervised independence ends in Kosovo

September 11, 2012September 11, 2012 Keida Kostreci of VOANews

Fewer than five years after becoming a country, Kosovo marked a milestone on September 10 2012 by bringing to a

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Business Europe News 

Integrate Eastern Europe’s shadow economy into the formal sector, World Bank report says

September 11, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Too many of Eastern Europe’s workers and firms are engaged in the “shadow economy” — doing business and work in

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Business 

Standard and Poor’s increases rating of UniCredit Bulbank

September 11, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

International rating agency Standard and Poor’s has increased the short-term rating of UniCredit Bulbank to A-2. The long-term rating and

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Viktor Orbán prime minister of Hungary
Europe News 

Hungarian PM: IMF deal this autumn

September 11, 2012September 10, 2012 Attila Leitner of The Budapest Times

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said he expects to see an IMF deal in the autumn. “Naturally, there are differences

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