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Month: October 2012

Leisure 

Film review: Taken 2

October 5, 2012October 4, 2012 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

If you didn’t catch the first Taken, the opening act of this sequel may not make a whole lot of

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Bulgaria News World 

Bulgaria to join Holocaust international body

October 4, 2012October 4, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Cabinet has approved a proposal for the country to join, as an observer, the Task Force for International Cooperation

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Europe News 

Violations build up as Election Day approaches in Ukraine

October 4, 2012 Anastasia Forina and Yuriy Onyshkiv of The Kyiv Post

Just several weeks ahead of Election Day, Ukraine’s parliamentary campaign is already full of violations of election legislation that could

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgaria draft Budget banking on higher revenues to offset salary, pension hikes

October 4, 2012 Alex Bivol

Bulgaria’s Finance Ministry published the draft 2013 Budget in which it set ambitious economic growth and tax revenue targets –

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Improvements needed to safety features of almost all European nuclear power stations – EC report

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

The standards of safety of nuclear power plants in Europe are “generally high” but further improvements in the safety features

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Bulgaria News 

Number of Bulgarians wanting to emigrate has risen – poll

October 4, 2012October 4, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

A poll at the end of September 2012 found that 14 per cent of Bulgarians surveyed wanted to leave the

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgarian Border Police arrest 33 illegal immigrants, mainly Syrians, in 24 hours

October 4, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

About 33 people had been arrested over the past 24 hours in attempts to cross the Bulgarian-Turkish border, Senior Commissioner

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Thirteen EU embassies in Sofia declare support for Roma Pride 2012

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

The heads of 13 European Union embassies in the Bulgarian capital city Sofia have issued a declaration of support for

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian opposition MPs lodge Constitutional Court challenge to Parliament’s special committee probing high-level corruption

October 4, 2012October 4, 2012 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

A Constitutional Court challenge to a special parliamentary committee to investigate high-level corruption in Bulgaria, voted into existence on September

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