Flood Watch Budapest: 55 000 people may have to be evacuated, PM says
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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Month: June 2013
Borissov’s GERB delays sitting of Parliament
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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Ultra-light planet found outside Solar System
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has discovered what appears to be the lightest planet ever to be directly observed outside
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Danube flooding ‘unlikely to affect Bulgaria’
Water levels of the Danube near the Bulgarian town of Svishtov are rising but authorities have said that there is
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‘The Portrait’ at the Museum Gallery of Modern Art
The Museum Gallery of Modern Art in Sofia currently is showing an exhibition entitled “The Portrait”, a reflection on one
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Bulgarian President opposes backtrack on smoking ban
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’s new socialist government purges more senior officials
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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Flood Watch Budapest: Class 1 Weather warning issued for June 5
The Hungarian weather service (OMSZ) has issued a Class 1 weather warning for torrential rain on the afternoon of June
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Bulgarian Parliament approves temporary scale-back of MP salaries
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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