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Day: April 25, 2013

Bulgaria Business News Perspectives 

Bulgarian media, consolidated

April 25, 2013August 6, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Media

It was a strange if not unhappy coincidence that in the very week that the US state department expressed concern

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s former utilities regulator chief had conflict of interest – report

April 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The former head of Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulator Commission (SEWRC), Angel Semerdjiev, was found to have been in

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Bulgaria Business News 

Sofia begins construction of metro extension to Business Park

April 25, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev and Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova attended the ceremony on April 25 marking the official start of

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Bulgaria News 

Volleys in political trench warfare after Naidenov says Tsvetanov bugged everyone

April 25, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Within a few hours of former cabinet minister Miroslav Naidenov alleging that Tsvetan Tsvetanov had been behind illegal eavesdropping on

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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgaria imposes temporary cuts to renewable energy generation

April 25, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgaria’s power grid operator ESO has asked the country’s three electricity distribution companies to limit the generation of electricity from

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s E-Government Minister to launch e-recycling campaign

April 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s E-Government Minister Roman Vassilev will open an e-recycling campaign in capital city Sofia on April 27. Throughout the day,

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Europe News 

Unionists in Poland threaten general strike as talks end in deadlock

April 25, 2013May 27, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Unionists demanding improved conditions for workers warned they may stage a general strike and protests across Poland after talks with

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s eavesdropping controversy deepens as former minister says whole cabinet was wiretapped

April 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The controversy in Bulgaria about allegations of illegal eavesdropping by the previous government took a new turn when former minister

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Europe News 

EU ire at Swiss decision to extend labour market restrictions

April 25, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The European Union has criticised the April 24 2013 decision by Switzerland’s federal council to extend labour market restrictions on

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