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Day: March 4, 2013

Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s acting PM released from hospital

March 4, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgaria’s acting Prime Minister Boiko Borissov, who remains in office pending the appointment of a caretaker government amid the country’s

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Romania says could ‘lose interest’ in Schengen accession

March 4, 2013May 27, 2013 Alex Bivol Romania, Schengen

Romania could lose interest in joining the Schengen visa-free travel area if its accession is  again blocked at the forthcoming

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Nabucco pipeline signs co-operation memo with Turkey’s TANAP

March 4, 2013May 22, 2013 Alex Bivol energy

The consortium behind the planned Nabucco gas pipeline has signed a memorandum of co-operation with the Trans-Anatolian Pipeline (TANAP), reports

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgaria’s utilities regulator outlines electricity price cut proposal

March 4, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) presented on March 4 its proposal for the electricity price cuts set

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Bulgaria News 

Tents situation in Sofia

March 4, 2013March 4, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Protesters in Sofia from the “Eagle Bridge” civic moment on March 4 2013 put up a tent in the park

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s acting PM fires corruption unit deputy director

March 4, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

Bulgaria’s acting Prime Minister Boiko Borissov has fired Petko Sertov as deputy director of the Cabinet’s Centre for Prevention and

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Europe News 

Trojan Horse: tainted meat in beef lasagne in Hungary

March 4, 2013May 27, 2013 Benedicte Williams of The Budapest Times Hungary

Hungary was the latest member of the European Union to admit to prepared beef dishes tainted with horsemeat on Monday

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Bulgaria News 

Decision awaited on whether mayor of Bulgaria’s Varna will resign

March 4, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Varna

The political fate of Kiril Yordanov, mayor of Bulgaria’s largest Black Sea city Varna, hangs in the balance as all

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Bulgaria News World 

Israeli president to press EU on declaring Hezbollah a terrorist organisation – report

March 4, 2013May 27, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Bourgas terrorist attack

Israeli president Shimon Peres will urge European Uninon leaders to put Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite group, on its list

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