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Month: October 2012

Europe News 

Ukrainian voters punished for candidates’ fraud

October 17, 2012October 17, 2012 Oksana Grytsenko of The Kyiv Post

Asked by sociologists about how they plan to vote, millions of Ukrainians could simply respond: “I can’t travel that far.”

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Europe News 

EU rebukes Google on its privacy policy

October 17, 2012May 22, 2013 VOANews

Data protection agencies in Europe have concluded that Google’s new privacy policy does not comply with the continent’s laws, but

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Europe News World 

Iran criticises latest EU sanctions

October 17, 2012May 22, 2013 VOANews

Iran has criticized the latest round of sanctions aimed at pressuring the country to curb its nuclear program. Foreign Ministry

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Controversial former Bulgarian foreign minister nominated for second EPP term – report

October 16, 2012May 22, 2013 Alex Bivol

Bulgaria’s ruling party GERB has nominated Roumyana Zheleva, a former foreign minister and failed European Commissioner-designate, for a second term

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Business Perspectives 

M&A corner: EU and government subsidies – boon or bane to SMEs?

October 16, 2012October 16, 2012 Les Nemethy

One should not look a gift horse in the mouth, as the saying goes, so forgive me if I raise

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Bulgaria Business Europe News 

EU annual inflation stays flat in September, Bulgarian CPI up

October 16, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Annual inflation was unchanged in September, both in the euro zone and the European Union as a whole, but the

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Defence Minister Angelov taking fighter jet acquisition plan to Cabinet

October 16, 2012October 16, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

Facing Nato member Bulgaria’s continuing shortcoming in fighter jets, Defence Minister Anyu Angelov has revived moves for the country to

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Bulgaria News 

Power substation explodes in Bulgaria’s Bourgas, damaging apartments, shops and cars

October 16, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

An electricity power substation in a residential building exploded in the early hours of the morning of October 16 2012

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Europe News 

‘EU Prosecutor’, new legal definitions among proposals for EU to fight organised crime

October 16, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

A European Union-wide definition of mafia-related crimes, the possibility of seizing criminal assets and using them to benefit the community,

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