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Day: July 12, 2013

Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s anti-government protests reach four-week mark

July 12, 2013July 31, 2013 Alex Bivol Peevski protests

Bulgaria’s anti-government protests, sparked by the controversial appointment of Delyan Peevski as director of the State Agency for National Security,

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian ultranationalist Siderov likens himself to Nelson Mandela

July 12, 2013July 31, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Volen Siderov

Bulgarian ultra-nationalist Ataka leader Volen Siderov, whose comments during the current political crisis have been invariably more ludicrous than lucid,

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Bulgaria 

Oresharski tells Parliament of government’s ‘achievements’ in first month

July 12, 2013July 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Plamen Oresharski

Plamen Oresharski, who sits in the prime minister’s chair in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government, told members of Parliament of

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Business 

Bulgaria’s antitrust watchdog fines Mtel 440 000 leva

July 12, 2013July 31, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Commission for Protection of Competition (CPC) said on July 12 that it has fined the country’s largest mobile carrier

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Europe 

Financial gap looms over Greece

July 12, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned Greece will face a financial gap immediately after July 2014. During a press

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Deputy PM criticises President Plevneliev over position on protests

July 12, 2013July 31, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Rossen Plevneliev

Tsvetlin Yovchev, Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister in the Bulgarian Socialist Party government, has lashed out at President Rossen

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Bulgaria 

Varna acting metropolitan withdraws after priests object to him

July 12, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Bulgarian Orthodox Church

The Bulgarian Orthodox Church metropolitan appointed as acting head of the Black Sea diocese of Varna after the death of

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