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Day: June 3, 2013

Business 

Russian envoy awaited in Bulgaria for Belene talks – PM

June 3, 2013June 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Belene, energy, nuclear, Plamen Oresharski

Bulgaria’s government is set to host talks on the future of the mothballed Belene nuclear power plant project later this

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Leisure 

Bulgaria’s summer concert highlights, June to August 2013

June 3, 2013October 30, 2019 The Sofia Globe staff

Sofia and Varna will rock, Bourgas show off its spirit, and musicians both legendary and upcoming will strut the stages

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Leisure 

Travel: Budapest tourist city bus rides get the show on the road

June 3, 2013June 9, 2013 Niklas Jakobsson of The Budapest Times Hungary

Budapest is a well-known gem on the banks of the Danube – filled with beautiful sites, eons of history and

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Leisure 

Travel: The iron furnaces of Moravia

June 3, 2013June 2, 2013 Marketa Hulpachova of The Prague Post Czech Republic

The Moravian secret of metallurgy dates back to the 8th and 9th centuries, when itinerant metalworkers would flock to the

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Perspectives 

Austerity reality sets terms of a balancing act in Cyprus

June 3, 2013June 4, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Cyprus

The reality of things to come in the austerity era that Cyprus has been ushered in has been laid bare

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Leisure Perspectives 

Travel: Second time around

June 3, 2013October 30, 2019 Mark Thomas tourism

The tales of low cost carriers and how the low cost model is becoming de facto the norm across Europe

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Bulgaria 

Amendments to Bulgaria’s smoking ban to be tabled ‘next week’

June 3, 2013June 4, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff smoking

Amendments to the Health Act partly reversing Bulgaria’s full ban on smoking in restaurants, bars, hotels and other public places

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Bulgaria News 

Bulgaria’s new cabinet ministers spell out plans

June 3, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Kristian Vigenin, Plamen Oresharski, Tsvetlin Yovchev

A more powerful State Agency for National Security, recruitment of civilians to act as “civil guards” to assist police, a

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Europe News 

Heavy flooding reaches Prague

June 3, 2013June 3, 2013 The Prague Post Czech Republic

Five people have been confirmed dead and four are missing as a result of the flooding that has devastated parts

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