European rights court rules Tymoshenko unlawfully detained
Europe’s top rights court has ruled that Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko was unlawfully held in detention before being sentenced
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Day: April 30, 2013
Eavesdropping controversy: Immunity protects Tsvetanov from criminal charges – for now
Prosecutors allege that Bulgaria’s former interior minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov, currently the campaign chief for Boiko Borissov’s GERB party, committed crimes
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Bulgarian Cabinet proposes new rules on state companies’ deposits
Bulgaria’s caretaker Government has drafted a bill amending the regulations on deposits held by state-owned companies, meant to prevent the
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Bulgarian renewable energy producers demand minister’s firing
Bulgarian Photovoltaic Association, the solar power industry lobby group, asked in an open letter to caretaker Prime Minister Marin Raykov
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First set of Bulgarian railways new sleeping cars go into service on April 30
The first 11 of Bulgarian state railways, BDZ, new sleeping cars went into service on April 30, ahead of the
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Bulgaria’s 2013 elections: Parties opposed to GERB pay for parallel count on election night
For many months, long before the nationwide protests that prompted the resignation of the Borissov GERB government, Bulgarian Socialist Party
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EU unemployment flat at 10.9% in March
The 27-member European Union ended March 2013 with 10.9 per cent unemployment, seasonally adjusted, unchanged from February, according to EU
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Bulgaria’s Bozhurishte industrial area gets first tenant
German company Behr-Hella Thermocontrol GmbH will become the first tenant of the Bozhurishte industrial area on the outskirts of Sofia,
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Bulgaria’s 2013 elections: Parties told to clean up their acts
Thirteen days before Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections, caretaker Prime Minister Marin Raykov – flanked by the Interior Minister and Prosecutor-General –
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