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Month: June 2013

Europe 

Flood Watch Budapest: Danube floodwater has peaked in city

June 10, 2013June 12, 2013 The Budapest Times Hungary

The Danube has passed its peak in Budapest and the main forces must now be focused on the section down

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Europe 

Ashton warns Turkey on human rights

June 10, 2013June 11, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Turkey

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has issued a reminder to Turkey that the country’s EU accession negotiations “provide

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Europe 

Poland intervenes after zloty hits one-year low

June 10, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Poland’s central bank NBP confirmed on June 7 2013 that it had sold a “certain amount” of foreign currencies on

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Europe 

Law to make it harder to start a firm in Slovakia

June 10, 2013 Jana Liptakova of the Slovak Spectator Slovakia

While businesses in Slovakia are calling on the government to make doing business in Slovakia easier and less bureaucratic, they

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Bulgaria 

MRF MP to face organised crime, tax evasion charges

June 9, 2013June 9, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

A member of Parliament for the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (MRF), Petar Angelov, is to give up his immunity

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Bulgaria 

Oresharski, Georgieva discuss negotiations on EU budget

June 9, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Plamen Oresharski

Plamen Oresharski, Prime Minister in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government, and European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva held talks on June 9,

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Bulgaria Leisure 

Bulgaria’s Sunny Beach resort opens 2013 summer season

June 9, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff beaches

The Bulgarian Black Sea resort of Sunny Beach opened its 2013 summer season on June 8 with a big concert

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Bulgaria 

Kristalina Georgieva: No danger of floods in Bulgaria

June 9, 2013June 11, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Hungary

The Danube would peak around June 13 and 14 in the region of Bulgaria and Romania but there was no

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Europe 

Flood Watch Budapest: Peak expected by midnight on June 9

June 9, 2013June 10, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Hungary

According to Máté Márk Kisdi, spokesperson of National Disaster Management, the peak of the Danube flood is to be expected

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