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Day: June 25, 2013

Business 

Bulgarian watchdog cancels decision in Sofia refuse plant tender

June 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on June 25 that it cancelled Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova’s order that

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Bulgaria 

Movement for Rights and Freedoms spent the most on May election campaign

June 25, 2013July 10, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian election 2013

The Movement for Rights and Freedoms spent the most on its campaign in Bulgaria’s May 2013 parliamentary elections, more than

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s Gambling Commission blacklists 28 more websites

June 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Gambling Commission has expanded the blacklist of online operators banned from providing services to Bulgarian customers, adding 28 more

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s candidate third deputy prime minister named

June 25, 2013July 10, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Plamen Oresharski

Economist Daniela Bobeva is to be nominated as the third deputy prime minister in the current Bulgarian Socialist Party government,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s political crisis: tents situation grows

June 25, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

Tent camps, albeit individually on a small scale, are becoming the new trend in Bulgaria’s anti-government protests. In Sofia, two

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Bulgaria 

Unrest in Bulgaria’s former ruling party – reports

June 25, 2013June 25, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Boiko Borissov, Tsvetan Tsvetanov

Some members of Bulgaria’s centre-right former ruling party GERB want its deputy leader to be dumped because he has become

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Europe 

Macedonia, Kosovo sign deal on new border crossing

June 25, 2013June 25, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Kosovo, Macedonia

Kosovo and Macedonia signed on June 24 2013 an agreement on the opening of the border crossing point of Bellanoc-Stancivic,

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Europe 

New Greek government is ushered in

June 25, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

The Greek government announced a broad reshuffle on the night of June 24 2013, just a few days after the

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Bulgaria 

Romania, Bulgaria discuss hydro-power plant on Danube

June 25, 2013July 10, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Romania

Romania and Bulgaria are discussing opening a jointly managed hydro-power plant on Danube, Romanian prime minister Victor Ponta said, just

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