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Day: October 2, 2013

Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Socialist Party ‘would get most votes’ were elections held now, poll says

October 2, 2013October 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Peevski protests, Sergei Stanishev, Volen Siderov

The Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) would get the largest share of votes in a narrow lead over Boiko Borissov’s centre-right

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria fires head of State Agency for Refugees for non-performance

October 2, 2013October 3, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

The Bulgarian government has fired the head of State Agency for Refugees, Nikola Kazakov, for non-performance in the face of

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Europe 

Three Golden Dawn MPs get bail, one remanded in custody

October 2, 2013October 2, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Greece

Three MPs from Greece’s neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn, Elias Kassidiaris, Elias Panagiotaros and Nicos Michos, were released on bail, after

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Bulgaria 

Bulgarian Parliament rejects motion of no confidence in government

October 2, 2013October 3, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Boiko Borissov, Volen Siderov

Bulgaria’s National Assembly, in a vote on October 2 2013, rejected opposition centre-right GERB’s motion of no confidence in the

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria ranked 47th in new global index of caring for the elderly

October 2, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff

Bulgaria placed 47th out of 91 countries ranked in a new index on caring for the elderly. The index was

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People 

Bulgaria’s former finance minister Dyankov appointed university head in Russia

October 2, 2013October 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

Simeon Dyankov, who served as finance minister and deputy Prime Minister in Bulgaria’s centre-right GERB government between July 2009 and

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Europe 

Poland to introduce new fiscal rules to improve public finance stability

October 2, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

The Polish government adopted a draft amendment to the public finance act introducing a new spending rule aimed at keeping

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Europe 

World Bank launches programme to improve corporate financial reporting in Europe’s Eastern Partnership states

October 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Georgia, Moldova

The World Bank launched on October 1 2013 a new programme to strengthen corporate financial reporting in the countries of

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Europe 

Lawmakers, Holocaust survivors to attend Auschwitz session on combating anti-Semitism

October 2, 2013October 2, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

More than 70 members of the Knesset, Israel’s parliament, and Holocaust survivors will gather on the site of the former

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