Way open for caretaker administration after Bulgaria’s MRF declines mandate to form government
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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Month: March 2013
Bulgaria’s protesters in profile
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 joins EU’s unified patent court agreement
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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Latvia asks to join 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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Masked men kidnap 10-year-old daughter of Bulgarian money laundering convict
Three masked men kidnapped the 10-year-old daughter of Bulgarian money laundering convict Evelin “Brendo” Banev, shooting her driver, as she
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Ukrainian porn actress loses asylum appeal
A Prague court has thrown out an appeal from Ukrainian porn actress Anastasia Hagen-Gryshai’s against the repeated rejection of her application
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Bulgaria’s acting PM released from hospital
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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Romania says could ‘lose interest’ in Schengen accession
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
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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