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Month: January 2013

Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian PM Borissov fires Education Minister, head of energy regulator

January 28, 2013January 28, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov swung the axe on January 28 2013, dismissing Education Minister Sergei Ignatov in the wake

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgaria reports gloomier business climate in January 2013

January 28, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s business climate indicator in January 2013 was 3.2 per cent percentage points lower than the December 2012 figure because

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Bulgaria Business Europe News 

Bulgarian regulator clears NBG, Eurobank units merger

January 28, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on January 28 that it approved the acquisition of EFG Eurobank Ergasias

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Bulgaria News 

Flop or not? Official figures of turnout in Bulgaria’s nuclear referendum awaited

January 28, 2013January 28, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

On the day after Bulgaria’s referendum on whether to build a new nuclear power station, the Central Election Commission was

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Europe News 

Poland votes down same-sex civil unions

January 28, 2013 The Warsaw Voice

The lower house of the Polish parliament Sejm rejected on Friday three bills on civil unions that would have recognized

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s pro-Belene camp hails referendum result as defeat for PM Borissov

January 27, 2013 Alex Bivol

Despite low turnout in Bulgaria’s first post-communist referendum, supporters of the Belene nuclear project hailed the result as a major

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s nuclear referendum fiasco: We could have used the money better, PM Borissov says

January 27, 2013January 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

In the first hours after polls closed in Bulgaria’s national referendum on the future of nuclear energy in the country,

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s nuclear referendum implodes?

January 27, 2013January 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Preliminary results in Bulgaria’s January 27 2013 referendum on the future of nuclear energy in the country showed a 60

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Europe News Perspectives World 

Russia Watch: Obama II downgrades relations with Russia’s Kremlin?

January 27, 2013January 28, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief

Scenes from three weeks of watching US-Russia relations in New York, Washington and Moscow:  Kate, an old high school

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