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Year: 2012

Bulgaria Business News 

Nuclear reactor at Bulgaria’s Kozloduy plant back in operation

October 24, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s Kozloduy nuclear power plant said on October 26 that it has restarted operations at the nuclear reactor taken offline

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarian Parliament drops Belene off nuclear referendum question

October 24, 2012May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgarian MPs approved on October 24 the wording of the question for the plebiscite on the future of nuclear energy

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Bulgarian pleads guilty in Chicago scam fraud case

October 24, 2012October 24, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

A Bulgarian national arrested in March on charges of financial crimes pleaded guilty on October 23 and was sentenced to

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian prosecutors ask to investigate two MPs

October 24, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s prosecutor-general has asked Parliament to lift the immunity from prosecution from two MP, deputy speaker Anastas Anastassov said on

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Europe News 

EU bigwigs will bask in Nobel glory

October 24, 2012May 22, 2013 The Budapest Times

It took almost a week: the EU, this year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, announced on Thursday it has finally decided

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News World 

Italian scientists resign to protest earthquake ruling

October 24, 2012 VOANews

Senior members of Italy’s government disaster assessment agency have resigned in protest, after seven scientists and experts were sentenced to

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Business Europe News 

Bulgaria loses ground in World Bank’s Doing Business report

October 23, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria fell two spots in the World Bank’s annual Doing Business report, ranking 66th out of 195 countries surveyed, losing

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Bulgaria News 

Power cut to trolley bus lines in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv

October 23, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Electricity distribution firm EVN Bulgaria has cut power to the trolley bus lines in Bulgaria’s second-largest city Plovdiv after the

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Leisure 

Depeche Mode confirm May 2013 gig in Sofia

October 23, 2012 The Sofia Globe staff

Depeche Mode, the band that put Bulgaria back on the map as a tour destination for big-name artists in 2006,

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