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Day: February 8, 2013

Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgaria to gain in EU budget, PM Borissov says

February 8, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

As the European Council tussled in tough negotiations on the European Union’s 2014-2020 budget, with a proposal on the table

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria to allow state subsidies for private kindergartens, schools

February 8, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Parliament approved an amendment to the School Education Act that will allow private kindergartens and schools to receive state

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian state lottery jackpot set to hit five million leva

February 8, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

An estimated five million leva (about 2.5 million euro) are expected to be up for grabs in one of the

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Bulgaria Business Leisure News 

New wine cellars to open in Bulgaria in 2013

February 8, 2013May 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Eleven new wine cellars will start working in Bulgaria in 2013, Krassimir Koev, executive director of Bulgaria’s executive agency for

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Socialist leader Stanishev demands apology from EPP’s Daul for ‘despicable’ accusation

February 8, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Sergei Stanishev, leader of the Party of European Socialists (PES) and of the Bulgarian Socialist Party, has demanded a ‘full

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Bulgaria News 

Reporters without Borders calls on Bulgarian PM Borissov to retract ‘threat’ to journalists

February 8, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Reporters without Borders has expressed dismay at a reported comment by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, reacting to allegations that

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Europe News 

Western warnings pile up for Ukraine’s Yanukovych

February 8, 2013May 22, 2013 Katya Gorchinskaya of The Kyiv Post

Ukraine’s European partners issued multiple, unambiguous warnings this week: If Ukraine wants to sign an Association Agreement in November for

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Leisure Perspectives 

Travel: Fair or not?

February 8, 2013May 22, 2013 Mark Thomas

If your train from Sofia to Stara Zagora or your bus from Rousse to Varna is cancelled due to snow

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Bulgaria Europe News Perspectives World 

Of Hezbollah and the road beyond Bourgas

February 8, 2013June 2, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas terrorist attack

Two of the most important questions now, after Bulgaria said that the investigation into the terrorist bomb attack on Israeli

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