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Day: August 16, 2013

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian MPs overturn Budget veto

August 16, 2013August 22, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria’s Parliament voted on August 16 to overturn the veto imposed by President Rossen Plevneliev on the Budget revision. The

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Bulgaria 

Bussing in: Anatomy of a ‘spontaneous’ protest

August 16, 2013August 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer Peevski protests

It was inevitable that someone would give the game away about the “spontaneous” protest by a pro-government crowd outside Bulgaria’s

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria’s political crisis: A tale of two protests, in photos

August 16, 2013August 16, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests

On the day that Bulgaria’s lawmakers overturned the presidential veto on the Budget revision, the National Assembly building, fittingly, found

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Bulgaria 

Tension in central Sofia as rival protest groups gather outside Parliament during Budget veto debate

August 16, 2013August 22, 2013 Clive Leviev-Sawyer and Alex Bivol Peevski protests, Rossen Plevneliev

Sofia mayor Yordanka Fandukova called for calm amid tensions in the centre of the Bulgarian capital city as rival protest

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Europe 

Euro zone annual inflation flat at 1.6% in July, EU inflation unchanged at 1.7%

August 16, 2013August 16, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Eurostat, macroeconomic indicators

Euro zone annual inflation was 1.6 per cent in July, unchanged from June, European Union’s statistics board Eurostat said on

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Perspectives 

Russia Watch: Georgia and Russia – rekindling an old love affair?

August 16, 2013 James Brooke VOA Moscow Bureau Chief Russia

When I first visited Georgia, on a reporting trip, in September 1991, I arrived in Tbilisi armed with four years

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Europe 

Poland will cut back on military missions abroad – President

August 16, 2013August 16, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Poland will cut back on military missions abroad and should focus instead on domestic defence, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said

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