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Month: June 2013

Europe 

Flood Watch Budapest: 55 000 people may have to be evacuated, PM says

June 6, 2013June 7, 2013 The Budapest Times Hungary

Up to 55 000 people could be evacuated in the Budapest area, Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told MTI this

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Bulgaria 

Borissov’s GERB delays sitting of Parliament

June 6, 2013June 7, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov

In a move apparently designed to trip up the proceedings of Parliament as a show of force, Boiko Borissov’s GERB

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World 

Ultra-light planet found outside Solar System

June 6, 2013June 6, 2013 VOANews final frontier

The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has discovered what appears to be the lightest planet ever to be directly observed outside

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Bulgaria 

Danube flooding ‘unlikely to affect Bulgaria’

June 6, 2013June 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Czech Republic, Hungary, Rousse

Water levels of the Danube near the Bulgarian town of Svishtov are rising but authorities have said that there is

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Leisure 

‘The Portrait’ at the Museum Gallery of Modern Art

June 5, 2013June 11, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Sofia

The Museum Gallery of Modern Art in Sofia currently is showing an exhibition entitled “The Portrait”, a reflection on one

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian President opposes backtrack on smoking ban

June 5, 2013June 7, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Rossen Plevneliev, smoking

Bulgarian President Rossen Plevneliev has spoken out against a backtrack on the country’s full ban on smoking in enclosed public

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s new socialist government purges more senior officials

June 5, 2013June 6, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Plamen Oresharski

The head of Bulgaria’s State Energy and Water Regulation Commission (SEWRC), the head of the Public Financial Inspection Agency and

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Europe 

Flood Watch Budapest: Class 1 Weather warning issued for June 5

June 5, 2013 The Budapest Times Hungary

The Hungarian weather service (OMSZ) has issued a Class 1 weather warning for torrential rain on the afternoon of June

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament approves temporary scale-back of MP salaries

June 5, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s lawmakers passed a motion on June 5 to scale back their own salaries to their 2009 levels. Starting June

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