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Day: October 11, 2013

Bulgaria 

New bid to challenge Peevski’s MP status in Constitutional Court

October 11, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff Peevski protests, Rossen Plevneliev

The Reformist Bloc, a group of seven right-wing and centrist parties that are not represented in the current Parliament, have

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Bulgaria 

Arab ambassadors visit refugee centre in Sofia

October 11, 2013February 11, 2014 The Sofia Globe staff Syrian refugees

Ambassadors of Arab countries accredited in Sofia were to visit a refugee centre in the Bulgarian capital city on October

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Perspectives 

Bulgaria’s protests, the sound and the fury

October 11, 2013February 11, 2014 Independent Balkan News Agency Peevski protests, Plamen Oresharski

Rather like the fine lady in the nursery rhyme, who has rings on her fingers and bells on her toes,

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World 

Chemical weapons watchdog wins 2013 Nobel Peace Prize

October 11, 2013February 11, 2014 VOANews

This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which is currently

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Bulgaria 

Bulgaria to change driving licence test system after probe finds corruption

October 11, 2013 The Sofia Globe staff

From 2014, candidates for driving licences in Bulgaria will do theory tests on tablets instead of paper, a change to

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Europe 

Bail-in victims to challenge troika’s policies at the ECJ

October 11, 2013 Independent Balkan News Agency Cyprus

Dozens of Cypriot depositors and others who have been affected by the so-called “bail-in” imposed on the island country by

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Perspectives 

Support for Greek far-right Golden Dawn party continues amid crackdown

October 11, 2013October 11, 2013 Al Pessin of VOANews Greece

Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party is again being labeled “neo-Nazi” after its leader and other senior members were arrested for

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Europe 

Polish PM to announce cabinet reshuffle in November

October 11, 2013 The Warsaw Voice Poland

Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday that he will announce cabinet line-up changes in November, when he will

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World 

Rifts emerge between Turkey’s PM and president

October 11, 2013 Dorian Jones of VOANews Turkey

Divisions between Turkey’s President Abdullah Gul and Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan re-emerged last week with the president’s address at

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