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Europe News 

European Commission delivers visa roadmap to Kosovo government

June 15, 2012May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission, Kosovo

European Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmström handed the roadmap for visa liberalisation over to the Kosovo government on June

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Europe News 

Greece ponders second election in six weeks

June 15, 2012May 27, 2013 Dominic Laurie of VOANews Greece

Greeks vote for a government for the second time in six weeks on Sunday. The last election, in May, gave

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Sport 

Bulgaria’s Grigor Dimitrov makes Queen’s Club quarterfinals

June 14, 2012May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Grigor Dimitrov

Bulgaria’s top men’s tennis player Grigor Dimitrov qualified on June 14 for the Queen’s Club Championships, one of the main

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Holy Synod bashes Sofia gay pride parade

June 14, 2012May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The Holy Synod of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church said on June 14 that it was opposed to the annual Pride

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian PM in turnabout on Judiciary Act amendments

June 14, 2012May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff judiciary

A week, to the day, after Parliament passed controversial amendments to the Judiciary Act that have been harshly criticised both

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Europe News Sport 

Polish authorities apologize over Euro 2012 hooligans

June 14, 2012June 14, 2012 The Warsaw Voice

Polish authorities apologized Wednesday for hooligan violence that broke out in Warsaw ahead of a tense Poland-Russia Euro 2012 match

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarian PM defends Forestry Act amendments

June 14, 2012June 14, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov defended the amendments to the Forestry Act, passed by Parliament on June 13, saying that

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Europe News World 

Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi starts tour of Europe

June 14, 2012May 22, 2013 VOANews

Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has arrived in Switzerland at the start of a historic European tour, which

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Europe News 

Czech MP faces trial after corruption immunity lifted

June 14, 2012May 27, 2013 The Budapest Times Czech Republic

Czech MPs stripped a leading politician of his parliamentary immunity on Tuesday in one of the country’s most high-profile corruption

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