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Day: October 18, 2012

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgaria think-tank presents leaner Budget alternative

October 18, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

A week after the Cabinet approved the 2013 Budget bill, Sofia-based think-tank Institute for Market Economics (IME) presented on October

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgaria’s Jeleva misses out on EPP vice president seat

October 18, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Roumyana Zheleva, the former foreign minister and failed European Commissioner-designate, who was surprisingly nominated for a second term as vice

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Bulgaria News 

Guns, not butter: Bulgarian police bust illegal firearms workshop at flour mill

October 18, 2012October 18, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

When Bulgarian police, acting on a tipoff, raided a bread production house in the town of Assenovgrad, they established that

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Bulgaria News 

Organised crime group arrested in Sofia for 3M leva tax fraud

October 18, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

An investigation by anti-organised crime police and the National Revenue Agency has led to the arrest of a group in

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian police arrest four for telephone scams

October 18, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian police have arrested four people who allegedly defrauded people by telephoning them and demanding money to deal with fictitious

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria to build temporary refugee shelter near Turkish border following increase in asylum-seekers

October 18, 2012October 18, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria, which lately has seen an increase in the number of refugees from Syria and other troubled Middle Eastern and

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian President taking high-tech industries in business delegation to Israel

October 18, 2012October 18, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Representatives of high-tech, R&D and agricultural firms will be in a business delegation that Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev is taking

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