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Day: March 26, 2013

Bulgaria News 

Prosecutors charge Bulgaria’s former agriculture minister Naidenov

March 26, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Prosecutors from a unit charged with fighting EU funds mismanagement have pressed charges against Bulgaria’s former agriculture minister Miroslav Naidenov,

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Bulgaria Europe News 

Bulgaria’s rate of births out of wedlock among highest in EU

March 26, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s rate of births outside marriage, at 56 per cent the same as France, puts the country at third place

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgaria unveils ‘energy sector stability’ measures

March 26, 2013May 22, 2013 Alex Bivol energy

Bulgaria’s caretaker Economy Minister Assen Vassilev presented on March 26 a series of measures meant to “guarantee the security of

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Bulgaria Business Europe News 

Bulgaria again bottom of EU’s innovation scoreboard

March 26, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff European Commission

Bulgaria again ranks bottom in the European Union’s 2013 scoreboard of innovation performance, having been at or near the lowest

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Bulgaria News 

Mudslinging in spat as CCB boss derides Bulgarian President Plevneliev

March 26, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev

A sideshow of mudslinging has broken out after Corporate Commercial Bank majority shareholder Tsvetan Vassilev, one of Bulgaria’s wealthiest business

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Andy Murray overcomes Bulgaria’s Dimitrov after shaky start

March 26, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Grigor Dimitrov

Second seed Andy Murray overcame a shaky start to progress to the last 16 of the Sony Open in Miami,

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Bulgaria News 

Close to 500 people requested refugee status in Bulgaria in first two months of 2013

March 26, 2013March 26, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

A total of 476 people applied for refugee status in the first two months of 2013, according to State Agency

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Europe News 

Cyprus: Bailout terms ‘painful’ but necessary

March 26, 2013May 27, 2013 VOANews Cyprus

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades says the terms of his country’s new $13 billion bailout are “painful,” but that he had

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