Google puts Bulgaria on Street View
Bulgaria became the 48th country mapped with Google’s Street View feature, which allows users to observe the surroundings of a
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Month: March 2013
Decision on Bulgaria and Romania joining Schengen visa zone unlikely before autumn
European Union interior ministers were scheduled to meet in Brussels on March 7 2013 for a state-of-play discussion on Bulgaria
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Visegrád common battle group to be formed by 2016
Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia will jointly deploy troops by 2016, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in
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Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch to lead ‘prayer for reconciliation’ amid political and social crisis
Bulgarian Orthodox Church Patriarch Neofit is to lead a “prayer for the reconciliation of the Bulgarian people” on March 10
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Bulgaria records 0.8% economic growth in 2012
Bulgaria’s economy grew by 0.8 per cent last year, the country’s National Statistics Institute (NSI) said on March 6. In
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EU fines Microsoft 561M euro for browser screen fail
The European Commission said on March 6 that it imposed a 561 million euro fine on Microsoft for failing to
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Borissov on bloodshed, Tsvetanov on freedom and Siderov on ‘the so-called Holocaust’
Bulgaria’s day of national mourning on March 6 2013 for Plamen Goranov, the protester who died several days after setting
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Tourism’s ‘robust’ performance in Europe to continue in 2013, survey says
The tourism industry’s “robust and resilient” performance in 2012 is expected to continue in 2013, according to the results of
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Kiril Yordanov, mayor of Bulgaria’s Varna, resigns
Long-standing mayor of Varna, Kiril Yordanov, announced his resignation at a news conference on March 6 2013, a day of
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