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Day: January 18, 2013

Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s Culture Minister to sue ultra-nationalist party leader Siderov for calling him a Turkish spy

January 18, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Minister of Culture Vezhdi Rashidov said that he would sue ultra-nationalist Ataka leader Volen Siderov for slander after Siderov,

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Bulgaria slides one spot in new European Catch-Up Index

January 18, 2013May 22, 2013 Marin Lessenski, EuPI

Six years after its accession into the EU, Bulgaria continues to substantially lag behind in the process of catching-up with

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Bulgaria Europe News 

New EU driving licences to be introduced on January 19

January 18, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

From January 19 2013, all new driving licences issued across the European Union will be in the form of a

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Europe News 

Czech smoking ban could be law this time

January 18, 2013January 18, 2013 Daniel Bardsley for The Prague Post

Proposed more than once in the past but always shelved, a ban on smoking in pubs and restaurants could finally

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Poland’s LOT to seek Dreamliner compensation from Boeing

January 18, 2013January 18, 2013 The Warsaw Voice

Poland’s national airline LOT will seek compensation from Boeing Co. after most of the maker’s flagship 787 Dreamliner passenger jets

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Bulgaria News 

Protests in Sofia against construction at the coast as debate intensifies on future of Bulgaria’s Black Sea

January 18, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff beaches

An estimated more than 2000 people joined in a January 17 2013 protest in Sofia against construction along Bulgaria’s Black

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Euro zone’s debt crisis and austerity policies continue to tamp down growth, UN report says

January 18, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The debt crisis of the euro zone, slowing external demand and high oil process continued to depress Europe, while austerity

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Bulgaria Business News Perspectives 

Sex, money, howls of corruption and influence-buying…it must be a Bulgarian business story

January 18, 2013January 31, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

It is not every day and everywhere that it is possible to claim a direct link between European Union operational

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Bulgaria News Perspectives World 

The terrorist attack on Israelis at Bulgaria’s Bourgas Airport – six months on: Updated

January 18, 2013June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas terrorist attack

Amid the frustration, speculation and enduring trauma in these past six months since the July 18 2012 suicide bomb terrorist

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