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Month: September 2012

Europe News 

Slovakia will have the highest tax on cigarettes in CEE region

September 5, 2012September 5, 2012 Jana Liptakova of the Slovak Spectator

Increasing excise taxes on cigarettes higher and earlier than originally planned is one of several measures by the Robert Fico

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Business Europe News 

France’s Hollande and Italy’s Monti call for economic growth to stabilise euro zone

September 5, 2012May 22, 2013 VOANews

French President Francois Hollande and Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti have called for urgent efforts to restore economic growth and

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Global youth unemployment worsening, ILO says

September 5, 2012September 5, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Unemployment rates among young people will get even worse globally as the spillover of the euro crisis spreads from advanced

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Business News World 

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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