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Day: March 5, 2013

Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarian utilities regulator approves lower electricity prices

March 5, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulatory Commission (SEWRC) said on March 5 that it approved the proposed electricity price cuts

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgarians slightly better than EU average in expectations for a healthy life

March 5, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat

Bulgarians, especially women, match or better the European Union average expectation for a healthy life, according to EU statistics released

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Bulgaria News 

Earliest date for caretaker government is March 13, Bulgarian President says

March 5, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

The earliest date on which a caretaker government may be formed, Parliament prorogued and the outgoing cabinet dismissed is March

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Europe News 

Moldovan cabinet falls as ruling coalition succumbs to infighting

March 5, 2013May 27, 2013 Alex Bivol Moldova

The government of Moldovan prime minister Vlad Filat fell to a motion of no confidence in parliament on March 5,

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Cabinet declares March 6 day of national mourning over protester who died after self-immolation

March 5, 2013March 5, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s outgoing cabinet declared that March 6 2013 would be a day of national mourning for Plamen Goranov, the protester

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Bulgaria News 

Way open for caretaker administration after Bulgaria’s MRF declines mandate to form government

March 5, 2013March 5, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Movement for Rights and Freedoms, the third-largest party in the current Parliament, on March 5 2013 declined – as

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Bulgaria News Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s protesters in profile

March 5, 2013March 5, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer

The “informal leaders” of Bulgaria’s nationwide protests are a motley lot with diverse backgrounds, including Russophiles, self-proclaimed consumer rights activists,

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgaria joins EU’s unified patent court agreement

March 5, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria will become the 25th European Union member state to join the block’s unified patent court agreement, the Council of

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Business Europe News 

Latvia asks to join euro zone

March 5, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff euro zone

Latvia has officially asked the European Commission and the European Central Bank (ECB) for an extraordinary convergence report “in order

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