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Day: March 8, 2013

Bulgaria Europe News 

Trial of Bulgarian money laundering convict begins in Italy

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

An Italian court was scheduled to hold its first hearing on March 8 in the lawsuit against Evelin “Brendo” Banev

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Bulgaria Business News 

Sofia mayor asks prosecutors to investigate heating utility

March 8, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy, Sofia

Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova has asked police and prosecutors to investigate why the city’s heating utility, Toplofikatsiya Sofia, did not

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Parliament adopts declaration on 70th anniversary of prevention of deportation of Bulgarian Jews to Holocaust death camps

March 8, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Jews

Bulgaria’s unicameral Parliament, the National Assembly, voted unanimously and without debate on March 8 2013 to adopt a declaration marking

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Europe News People Perspectives 

Outgoing Czech president Klaus steadfast in going against the political tide

March 8, 2013May 27, 2013 Marketa Hulpachova of The Prague Post Czech Republic

As final arrangements were made to move Václav Klaus out of the castle he’s called home for 10 years, a

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Bulgaria News 

‘Special services’ of Sofia traffic police cost from 50 to 500 leva – report

March 8, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Employees of Sofia’s traffic police department accept from 50 to 500 leva (about 25 to 250 euro) for various “special

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgaria’s Vayant announces Lufthansa partnership

March 8, 2013March 8, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgarian IT solutions provider Vayant, which specialises in business-to-business airfare shopping, has become the new technology partner of Lufthansa, the

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgarian Patriarch Neofit calls on protesters not to commit suicide

March 8, 2013June 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit has called on protesters not to go to the extreme of committing suicide, an appeal

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People 

St Patrick’s Day charity ball

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

he Irish Bulgarian Business Network (IBBN) will host its annual charity St Patrick’s Day Ball on March 16 at the

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Bulgaria Europe News World 

The world’s statements and statistics on International Women’s Day 2013

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

On the eve of International Women’s Day, March 8 2013, a new Eurobarometer shows that 78 per cent of Europeans

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