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Day: April 30, 2013

Europe News 

European rights court rules Tymoshenko unlawfully detained

April 30, 2013May 27, 2013 Lisa Bryant of VOANews Ukraine

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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Bulgaria News 

Eavesdropping controversy: Immunity protects Tsvetanov from criminal charges – for now

April 30, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Tsvetan Tsvetanov

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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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarian Cabinet proposes new rules on state companies’ deposits

April 30, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Marin Raykov

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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Bulgaria Business News 

Bulgarian renewable energy producers demand minister’s firing

April 30, 2013May 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff energy

Bulgarian Photovoltaic Association, the solar power industry lobby group, asked in an open letter to caretaker Prime Minister Marin Raykov

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Bulgaria Leisure News 

First set of Bulgarian railways new sleeping cars go into service on April 30

April 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

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 News 

Bulgaria’s 2013 elections: Parties opposed to GERB pay for parallel count on election night

April 30, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian election 2013

For many months, long before the nationwide protests that prompted the resignation of the Borissov GERB government, Bulgarian Socialist Party

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Business Europe 

EU unemployment flat at 10.9% in March

April 30, 2013July 1, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat, macroeconomic indicators

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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Business 

Bulgaria’s Bozhurishte industrial area gets first tenant

April 30, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

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 News 

Bulgaria’s 2013 elections: Parties told to clean up their acts

April 30, 2013May 27, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian election 2013

Thirteen days before Bulgaria’s parliamentary elections, caretaker Prime Minister Marin Raykov – flanked by the Interior Minister and Prosecutor-General –

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