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Month: March 2013

Europe News 

Banks in Cyprus remain closed after bailout

March 27, 2013May 27, 2013 Selah Hennessy VOANews Cyprus

Depositors with more than $130,000 in Cypriot banks could see about 40 percent of their deposits turned into bank shares,

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Business Europe News 

US Steel to stay in Slovakia’s Košice

March 27, 2013May 27, 2013 Beata Balogova of The Slovak Spectator Slovakia

US Steel Corporation will not sell its U.S. Steel Košice (USSK) subsidiary in eastern Slovakia. Representatives of the Slovak government

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Europe News 

Tens of thousands protest in anti-government strike in Poland

March 27, 2013May 27, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Thousands of workers staged a strike in southern Poland’s industrial Silesia region on March 26 2013 in a protest against

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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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Sport 

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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