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Month: December 2012

Europe News 

Turkey’s PM attacks popular TV show Magnificent Century

December 13, 2012December 13, 2012 Dorian Jones of VOANews

Turkey is witnessing something of a battle royal. The country’s most popular soap television series, “Magnificent Century,” is about Turkey’s

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Business Europe News 

11 EU countries get European Parliament’s approval for a financial transaction tax

December 13, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Eleven EU countries planning to introduce a financial transaction tax (FTT) won a resounding go-ahead from members of the European

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Defence Minister’s proposed jet fighter acquisition plan fails to get Cabinet approval

December 12, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

A proposal by Bulgarian Defence Minister Anyu Angelov to go ahead with direct negotiations on buying jet fighter aircraft without

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Europe News 

Romania’s ruling coalition trounces opposition in general election

December 12, 2012December 12, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Romania’s ruling coalition won convincingly in the parliamentary election held on December 9, final results made public by the country’s

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian PM Borissov firmly against lifting smoking ban, ruling party MPs divided

December 12, 2012December 12, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov says that he firmly supports the June 2012 law fully banning smoking in enclosed public

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Sofia and Skopje speak on EU ministers’ postponement of decision on accession talks with Macedonia

December 12, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Leaders in the Bulgarian capital Sofia and the Macedonian capital Skopje have spoken out in response to the decision by

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian hoteliers and restaurateurs threaten civil disobedience unless smoking ban laws changed

December 12, 2012December 12, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian hoteliers and restaurateurs will deliberately allow the breaking of the country’s law against smoking in enclosed public places unless

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Bulgaria News 

Archaeology: Basilica from the time of Constantine the Great found at Sofia’s Serdica West Gate

December 12, 2012December 12, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Archaeologists in Bulgaria’s capital city Sofia have found a basilica said to date from the time of emperor Constantine the

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Europe News Perspectives World 

Russia Watch: Russian conservatives see ‘foreign agents’ and ‘treason’ behind social change

December 12, 2012December 12, 2012 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

Ashley, an American friend, and I were walking on a bridge over the Moscow River to the “Inostranii Agent” or

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