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Day: June 21, 2013

Bulgaria 

Supermoon on June 23 to be most super moon of 2013

June 21, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff final frontier

The Super Moon that will shine on the night of June 23 will be the most super moon of 2013

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Bulgaria 

Protest planned outside PES Council in Sofia

June 21, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests, Sergei Stanishev

Anti-government protests in Bulgaria are expected to continue over the weekend, with a separate rally planned in front of the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian socialist MP apologises for calling protesters ‘internet lumpens’

June 21, 2013June 21, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

Bulgarian Socialist Party MP Hristo Monov says that he apologises for using the term “internet lumpens” to describe the anti-government

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Bulgaria 

Barroso underlines concerns to Oresharski

June 21, 2013July 10, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Plamen Oresharski

European Commission President Jose Barroso underlined a series of concerns in talks in Brussels with Plamen Oresharski, who occupies the

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Leisure 

Exhibition in Plovdiv marking 60th anniversary of East German uprising

June 21, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Plovdiv

An exhibition marking the 60th anniversary of the June 1953 uprising in East Germany is to open in Bulgaria’s second

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Europe 

Germany blocking Turkey’s EU membership talks

June 21, 2013June 21, 2013 VOANews Turkey

Germany is blocking Turkey’s next step towards membership in the European Union over Ankara’s crackdown on anti-government protests. All 27

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Europe 

ECHR rejects challenges to Slovakia’s citizenship law

June 21, 2013 Michaela Terenzani-Stankova of The Slovak Spectator Slovakia

Over the past three years, Slovakia and Hungary have not been able to resolve a dispute over citizenship rights that, along

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Bulgaria 

The longest day for Bulgaria

June 21, 2013July 10, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Plamen Oresharski, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

Bulgarians woke up on June 21, in the northern hemisphere the longest day, to the news that after a marathon

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Leisure 

Film review: Trance

June 21, 2013June 21, 2013 Andre Crous of The Prague Post

One couldn’t imagine a more appropriate title than this one. Danny Boyle, who last directed James Franco in the cinematic

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